<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>Hi Geoff,</div>
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<div>I find there is no better way to back up your system than using rsync. Rotate you files every two weeks or a month and get daily snapshots of your entire system without taking up much space, time, or cycles.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
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<div>https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-create-incremental-backups-using-rsync-on-linux</div>
<div>https://www.linux.com/training-tutorials/how-backup-files-linux-rsync-command-line/</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 12, 2020 at 3:10 PM<br/>
<b>From:</b> "a" <a@kaluta.us><br/>
<b>To:</b> nmglug@lists.nmglug.org<br/>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [nmglug] WHAT THE HAY, aBACKUP.</div>
<div name="quoted-content">Hi Geoff<br/>
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a@alap:~$ /home/a/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh<br/>
backup of a home<br/>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/>
rsnapshot encountered an error! The program was invoked with these options:<br/>
/usr/bin/rsnapshot alpha<br/>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/>
ERROR: Could not mkpath("/media/a/aBackup/alpha.0/", 0, 0755);<br/>
done<br/>
/home/a/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh: line 6: read: -n: option requires an<br/>
argument<br/>
read: usage: read [-ers] [-a array] [-d delim] [-i text] [-n nchars] [-N<br/>
nchars] [-p prompt] [-t timeout] [-u fd] [name ...]<br/>
a@alap:~$ /home/a/bin/alpha.20<br/>
bash: /home/a/bin/alpha.20: Is a directory<br/>
a@alt,a<br/>
Thanks,a<br/>
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On 10/11/20 10:43 PM, Geoff Chesshire wrote:<br/>
> Hi Anthony,<br/>
><br/>
> You can copy any one of the files like<br/>
> /media/a/aBackup/alpha.13/alap/home/a/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh over into<br/>
> /home/a/bin/ as these are all identical backup copies of the same file.<br/>
> Then after plugging in your external backup drive, you can run<br/>
> /home/a/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh (with no "." at the beginning) in a<br/>
> terminal to make a new backup. Just be patient to let it finish.<br/>
><br/>
> Thanks,<br/>
> Geoff Chesshire<br/>
><br/>
> On 10/11/20 8:27 PM, a wrote:<br/>
>> Hi Geoff.<br/>
>> /home/a/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh (Does not exist). Manual: suggests the<br/>
>> program be run from terminal. Woould the following commend correct<br/>
>> ./home/a/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh Any suggestions?<br/>
>> Thanks,a<br/>
>><br/>
>> a@alap:~$ sudo find / -name rsnapshotBackup.sh<br/>
>> /home/a/.local/share/Trash/files/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh<br/>
>> find: ‘/run/user/1000/gvfs’: Permission denied<br/>
>><br/>
>> On 10/11/20 1:20 PM, Geoff Chesshire wrote:<br/>
>>> Hi Anthony,<br/>
>>><br/>
>>> I remember when Jason wrote the script in /home/a/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh<br/>
>>> that runs the rsnapshot backup commands. We were with you either at the<br/>
>>> second street brewery or in our office. I think you had to leave before<br/>
>>> the script could be thoroughly tested. It could possibly be improved,<br/>
>>> but it should work.<br/>
>>><br/>
>>> The directory aBackup/ should exist on your external backup drive, so<br/>
>>> that when you plug it into the USB port, it gets mounted at<br/>
>>> /media/a/aBackup/ ... Then the backup script may be used to run the<br/>
>>> (well-documented) rsnapshot utility to back up your home directory onto<br/>
>>> your external backup drive. Obviously this works only if the external<br/>
>>> backup drive is plugged into the USB port.<br/>
>>><br/>
>>> Thanks,<br/>
>>> Geoff Chesshire<br/>
>>><br/>
>>> On 10/11/20 12:58 PM, a wrote:<br/>
>>>> /bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh<br/>
>>>><br/>
>>>> The referenced trash item, /bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh was last accessed<br/>
>>>> july 19 (in properties) the same date of my last backup file #20 what<br/>
>>>> do you think put it in the file system and let it rip? The numbered<br/>
>>>> files13-17 i imagine identify the previous backup up numbered files<br/>
>>>> corresponding to that on the external drive,i haven't checked if the<br/>
>>>> external referenced files have content (aside: my backup up external<br/>
>>>> disk was connected to the computer,relevant?). the presenting problem<br/>
>>>> manifested by an intermediate "file" flashing on for a fractional<br/>
>>>> second. i have restored the original icon when i initially copied the<br/>
>>>> icon content it contained: /rsnapshotBackup.sh that same code<br/>
>>>> content. what I find missing is the parapathetic flash then disapear<br/>
>>>> page. which when pressing a small bar which then began the external<br/>
>>>> save.<br/>
>>>><br/>
>>>> Jason, who seems to be on hiatus, originally installed intalled<br/>
>>>> aBackup, which speaks to its merit. Searching independently I could<br/>
>>>> find no supporting text for aBackup. Akkana thanks for your interest.<br/>
>>>><br/>
>>>> On 10/11/20 12:10 PM, Akkana Peck wrote:<br/>
>>>>> a writes:<br/>
>>>>>> "/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh" (attach) is sitting in the "trash", can I<br/>
>>>>>> copy<br/>
>>>>>> this part "/rsnapshotBackup.sh" and drop in in the file system and<br/>
>>>>>> if do<br/>
>>>>>> drop it in the files system will it auto place in correct order? Any<br/>
>>>>>> insight? Thanks, a<br/>
>>>>> Maybe. But it might not be the one you want. It looks like you have<br/>
>>>>> several files called rsnapshotBackup.sh:<br/>
>>>>><br/>
>>>>> a writes:<br/>
>>>>>> a@alap:~$ sudo find / -name rsnapshotBackup.sh<br/>
>>>>>> [sudo] password for a:<br/>
>>>>>> /media/a/aBackup/alpha.17/alap/home/a/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh<br/>
>>>>>> /media/a/aBackup/alpha.16/alap/home/a/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh<br/>
>>>>>> /media/a/aBackup/alpha.15/alap/home/a/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh<br/>
>>>>>> /media/a/aBackup/alpha.14/alap/home/a/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh<br/>
>>>>>> /media/a/aBackup/alpha.13/alap/home/a/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh<br/>
>>>>> [ ... ]<br/>
>>>>>> /home/a/.local/share/Trash/files/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh<br/>
>>>>> [ ... ]<br/>
>>>>><br/>
>>>>> So you have the one in the Trash, plus five more in various places<br/>
>>>>> under /media/a/aBackup.<br/>
>>>>><br/>
>>>>> That one in the Trash could be a really old one. I don't know what<br/>
>>>>> rsnapshotBackup.sh -- does it restore from an old backup? In that<br/>
>>>>> case, the one in the Trash could be a super old one, or a bad one<br/>
>>>>> that didn't work right.<br/>
>>>>><br/>
>>>>> I would guess that the one in /media/a/aBackup/alpha.17 is the<br/>
>>>>> newest, but I wouldn't assume that without looking at the dates<br/>
>>>>> on all six of the files.<br/>
>>>>><br/>
>>>>> Personally, I'd be leery of using backup software that (a) doesn't<br/>
>>>>> have documentation that clearly tells you where to find the restore<br/>
>>>>> files, and (b) stores things in directories named "alpha". Alpha<br/>
>>>>> usually means very early software that hasn't been tested much and<br/>
>>>>> should only be considered experimental. But that's just me.<br/>
>>>>><br/>
>>>>> You should definitely make an offline copy of any files on your disk<br/>
>>>>> that are really important to you -- e.g. copy them to an external<br/>
>>>>> hard drive, and then unplug the hard drive -- before running any<br/>
>>>>> shell script where you're not sure exactly what it does, and where<br/>
>>>>> you're choosing from six different versions of the script without<br/>
>>>>> being sure why there are six of them.<br/>
>>>>><br/>
>>>>> ...Akkana<br/>
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