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| From | Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: how to backup to an encrypted usb drive? [OT: rsync metadata] |
| Date | 2018-11-19 04:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <wVIzL-4RT-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <wU5K9-7sa-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <wU6mS-7Wy-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <wU7Ci-ey-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <wU85j-Fa-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <wVBoC-6n-9@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
Hi. On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 11:56:27AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > > >> On 11/14/18, Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> wrote: > >>> If you're content with losing all this metadata in your backup - there > >>> are rsync, cpio or tar. Or all those ‘backup solutions' based on those. > > >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 12:52:57PM -0500, Lee wrote: > >> Do I need all that metadata? This is for me at home so it's pretty > >> much a single user machine. > > > On Nov 14, 2018, at 10:26 AM, Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> wrote: > > That's for you to decide. I'd say you definitely need it for the backups > > of / and /var and can *probably* skip it for /home, but YMMV. > > Don’t the options for rsync -aAHX preserve all the metadata? Is there something besides Yep, there is at least one thing rsync looses along the way: # chattr +i /bin/ping # rsync -aHAX /bin/ping /tmp # lsattr /bin/ping ----i--------e--- /bin/ping # lsattr /tmp/ping -------------e--- /tmp/ping Reco
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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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