David RevoyDown in a Rabbit Hole
I started the year with a big month of problem solving. Nothing really exciting, I mostly did home maintenance: cleaning, DIY, hard drive replacement, archiving, power supply replacement, setting up a home server, making better backups for all devices at home, centralizing family photo albums, converting media, etc... etc... It was a bit of a never-ending rabbit hole once you started down it. But a pleasant one, because all the various little improvements were immediately rewarding.
MHunt@davidrevoy which backup software are you using, I use kbackup. I'm also having issues with the PSU, will probably buy a new one.
@mhunt Hey! I tried all backup software with a GUI, but none of them was simple enough for me (for launching it, for deciding a source/dest, for accessing the data).
I finally made a bash script with rsync following this great blog post: https://earlruby.org/2013/05/creating-differential-backups-with-hard-links-and-rsync/ The author even share a full script in the comment here https://earlruby.org/2013/05/creating-differential-backups-with-hard-links-and-rsync/#comment-61210 . Mine is just this a bit rewritten. I exectute it with https://apps.kde.org/kcron/ daily now during lunch hours. So far, I'm happy about it.
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Hi David, sorry for not replying before, thank you for your info as always, I tried KBackup, seems to work just fine, makes a .rar file of the selected directory and it was a good time to find it as I had trouble with my PC. Lucky, I have 2 HD for backups, one internal and one external so work is safe, just got me thinking of a backup workstation when the main gets damaged.
Hi David, sorry for not replying before, thank you for your info as always, I tried KBackup, seems to work just fine, makes a .rar file of the selected directory and it was a good time to find it as I had trouble with my PC. Lucky, I have 2 HD for backups, one internal and one external so work is safe, just got me thinking of a backup workstation when the main gets damaged.