Re: pdumpfs May be a Casualty of Upgrade to Wheezy.
On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 01:13:57PM -0500, martin McCormick wrote:
> The daily system backups had failed for several days so it was
> time to investigate and I found that the time of death was after
> upgrading squeeze to wheezy.
>
> Pdumpfs is useful because each day's new backup consists
> of hard links to all previous files plus any new files that have
> been written since the previous backup.
>
> After the upgrade, pdumpfs exits with errors related to
> ruby libraries and it's game over.
>
> To recover files, one mounts the backup medium, cd's to
> the year/month/day/home/user/files and simply copies them
> wherever they need to be. It's simple and most important, one can
> stick a suitably-scized thumb drive in to a usb port and forget
> about it until it is needed.
>
> Such programs as dump, restore and rsync are fine but need more
> media and attention for use as backups.
>
> The description of pdumpfs describes it's backup strategy
> as similar to something called plan9.
>
> All constructive suggestions are greatly appreciated.
That sounds very much like rsnapshot.
-dsr-
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