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Hi cracauer@, Yes, I understand that, I was referring to your de-duplication suggestion. Kindest regards, M

Hi cracauer@, thank you for the reply. Ha, ha, that is what I suggested as overall complexity. Apart from not having enough memory vis-a-vis the amount of data, I do not understand how de-duplication help. After all the old(er) snapshots will have the previous names/positions. Or, what...

Hi gpw928, thank you for your reply. You are absolutely correct, but I am more interested in general approach that people take, namely with data. In addition to the above, I am trying to figure out how to deal with (i) renamed files and (ii) moved files. In order to deal with the amount of...

Hi gpw928, thank you for the reply. This is, in fact, what I have been contemplating. Let us say that I will set a day folder for the daily backups to the number of days for each month (if the application lets me.) Then before the last backup "falls off the cliff" I save it into a month...

Hi cracauer@, thank you for the reply. Re 1) thank you for the explanation. Re 2) I may not understand (or use) the terminology correctly, but I thing that we talk about the same thing. Hi Eric A. Borisch, I do not quite follow your explanation about the link. My understanding of the...

Greetings all, some recent backup related discussion made me look at my backup strategy, and I was wondering about two issues/features of rsnapshot. As I understand it, rsnapshot is using hard-links to save space. Is there not a danger of running out of inodes? The second question is about...

Hi mer, user rude, thank you very much, especially indicating the pkg prime-list. I cannot just download the packages form the list because I have some packages that I compiled with different options, and since I read warnings not to mix ports and packages I am forced to compile everything...

Hi mer, urer rude, stratacast1, I would like to implement the back up of the OS configuration, as suggested by mer. Could you please advise which of the configuration directories do you back up? Also would it be possible to back up a list of the installed packages? Kindest regards, M

Hi user rude, Well, not newb as far as time, once one has a close encounter of the potential loss of data, all changes. But, I am still not sure that I do it "right" whatever it means, so I am always interested what other people are doing. To wit, mer's idea backing the OS configuration...

Hi user rude, Ah, O.K., you are of-course correct. I had been moving snapshots to another machine, hence my question. Kindest regards, M

Hi mer, I had been separating the OS and data forever. However, I did not think about backing-up the configuration files. Thus, my main concern is with the data. Kindest regards, M

Hi user rude, I like and have been doing the same. The problem is that it is not really a backup because it synchronizes only the last state of the data. So, how do you deal with it? Just back up the particular synchronization? Also to your first reply, there are data of different...

Hi ralphbsz, zirias@, thank you for the replies. My question re the compliance was really about how it affects writing scripts. Your advises essentially solve my inquiry, regardless of the strict definition of POSIX compliant shell. Kindest regards, M

Hi cracauer@, thank you for your reply. Yes, you gave an example to what I meant. However, your answer is inconsistent with bakul's. Hence, my (continuing) confusion. My initial understanding was that POSIX compliant shell is the one that implements only the minimum prescribed by the...

Hi bakul, thank you for your reply. I know that the standard does not prohibit it. And here is my confusion. Why such an emphasis on POSIX compliant shell, if one POSIX compliant shell has additional feature, incompatible with another shell, and thus a script written using the additional...

Hi zirias@, thank you for the reply. I read somewhere that some shells were deemed compliant , but had addition features, hence the question. Kinest regards, M

Greetings all, could you please explain the term POSIX compliant shell. I am asking because as I - perhaps incorrectly - understand it, the POSIX standard specifies the minimum that the shell must satisfy. Thus, if the shell satisfies that, but has additional features, is it POSIX compliant...

Hi ralphbsz, thank you for your reply. Yeah, the multiplicity of the files with the same content is an issue. I sometimes reorganize my folder/file structure, and end with such a mess. Kindest regards, M

Hi ralphbsz, thank you for your reply. Regarding your suggestion re word-processor with version control, since my clients without exception use MS Word, the decision what to use is not mine. MS Word does have a version control, but it mandates use of OneDrive, which brings an issue of trust...

Hi Eric A. Borisch, I am not sure that having tried it and succeeded necessarily mans that the overall system and strategy is well designed. What I am trying to express is that I do not know what I do not know in a sense that there may be issues that I am not aware of and, as Murphy asserts...