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Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive?

From Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive?
Date 2018-11-15 18:50 +0100
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 08:07:34 +0300
Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> wrote:

...

> Cron can and will send a e-mail to a pre-determined address, if a batch
> job writes something to stdout/stderr.
> So then you do a backup, you have two choices:
> 
> a) Log all and everything, and get your e-mail every day.
> b) Log errors only and get your e-mail only if something goes wrong.
> 
> I prefer the latter, but YMMV.

My problem with the latter has to do with the case where the backups
are pulled by a server, and that server loses connectivity or
crashes ...

Of course, this can be solved with some sort of monitoring solution,
but I do prefer the security of messages informing me that the backups
are executing properly.

Celejar

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Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-14 16:10 +0100
  Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2018-11-14 17:00 +0100
    Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-14 17:40 +0100
      Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2018-11-14 19:00 +0100
        Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-14 19:30 +0100
          Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2018-11-14 23:10 +0100
            Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-15 06:10 +0100
              Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2018-11-15 16:50 +0100
                Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-15 18:20 +0100
                Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2018-11-15 20:10 +0100
                Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-15 20:30 +0100
                Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2018-11-15 21:20 +0100
              Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2018-11-15 18:50 +0100
          Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-11-15 01:20 +0100
            Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-15 06:20 +0100
              Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-11-15 09:30 +0100
          Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? [OT: rsync metadata] Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2018-11-18 21:00 +0100
            Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? [OT: rsync metadata] Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-19 04:40 +0100
              Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? [OT: rsync metadata] Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2018-11-19 19:00 +0100
                Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? [OT: rsync metadata] Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-19 20:00 +0100

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