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by Brian Johnson-10
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First off, a big, belated thanks to Seth for the duplicity recommendation a while back for backups. It's worked very well on the two Fedora boxes I have!
Now, the question: During lunch today, I'm planning on celebrating Fedora 11 release day by...installing Fedora 11! On my laptop. And I'd like to take advantage of everything ext4 has to offer such as encryption and some speed improvements. So, I'd like to completely do away with my /home partition (or the stuff in it) and start over from scratch. I've used duplicity to back up /home and actually did a tar cvzf on /home/mbjohn last night to be on the safe side, but my tgz file ended up being about 20G larger than my home directory, which, um, has me worried. Ultimately, I'd like to know that if I need to, I can restore needed files from my encrypted duplicity backups. In short, is there a file in my home directory now that I need in place after the installation so that I can install files from my duplicity backups? I did some looking and couldn't find exactly what I needed. Thanks. Brian -- Brian Johnson "And I will be even more undignified than this, and will be humble in my own sight." (2 Samuel 6:22) _______________________________________________ Dulug mailing list Dulug@... https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/dulug |
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Re: duplicity question
by Michael Ansel-3
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Afraid I can't help with duplicity, but a question about the grossly
over-sized tar backup: Is that 20G larger than will fit on the partition, or 20G larger than the data? I only ask because just last week I goofed on my backup script and caused it to tar up the directory containing the destination tar file. Needless to say, it didn't like that very much and the infinite loop filled up the entire drive pretty quick. So, I just wanted to throw that out there in case you made the same mistake as me. Also, while I can't speak for the other members of the list, I for one would be interested in hearing how the migration to F11 goes: I'm probably going to switch my laptop over Sunday, after I get back from SouthEast LinuxFest. Good luck with the install! Michael On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Brian Johnson<voyager.106@...> wrote: > First off, a big, belated thanks to Seth for the duplicity recommendation a > while back for backups. It's worked very well on the two Fedora boxes I > have! > > Now, the question: > > During lunch today, I'm planning on celebrating Fedora 11 release day > by...installing Fedora 11! On my laptop. And I'd like to take advantage of > everything ext4 has to offer such as encryption and some speed improvements. > So, I'd like to completely do away with my /home partition (or the stuff in > it) and start over from scratch. I've used duplicity to back up /home and > actually did a tar cvzf on /home/mbjohn last night to be on the safe side, > but my tgz file ended up being about 20G larger than my home directory, > which, um, has me worried. Ultimately, I'd like to know that if I need to, I > can restore needed files from my encrypted duplicity backups. In short, is > there a file in my home directory now that I need in place after the > installation so that I can install files from my duplicity backups? I did > some looking and couldn't find exactly what I needed. > > Thanks. > > Brian > > -- > Brian Johnson > "And I will be even more undignified than this, and will be humble in my own > sight." (2 Samuel 6:22) > > _______________________________________________ > Dulug mailing list > Dulug@... > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/dulug > > _______________________________________________ Dulug mailing list Dulug@... https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/dulug |
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Re: duplicity question
by seth vidal-3
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On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Brian Johnson wrote: > First off, a big, belated thanks to Seth for the duplicity recommendation a while back for backups. It's worked very well > on the two Fedora boxes I have! > > Now, the question: > > During lunch today, I'm planning on celebrating Fedora 11 release day by...installing Fedora 11! On my laptop. And I'd > like to take advantage of everything ext4 has to offer such as encryption and some speed improvements. So, I'd like to > completely do away with my /home partition (or the stuff in it) and start over from scratch. I've used duplicity to back > up /home and actually did a tar cvzf on /home/mbjohn last night to be on the safe side, but my tgz file ended up being > about 20G larger than my home directory, which, um, has me worried. Ultimately, I'd like to know that if I need to, I can > restore needed files from my encrypted duplicity backups. In short, is there a file in my home directory now that I need > in place after the installation so that I can install files from my duplicity backups? I did some looking and couldn't > find exactly what I needed. You need your gpg keys. That should be it. when in doubt, of course, test it. -sv _______________________________________________ Dulug mailing list Dulug@... https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/dulug |
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Re: duplicity question
by Brian Johnson-10
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Thanks Seth, that's exactly what I ended up doing...after doing some more digging and seeing that duplicity only relies on gpg, I figured it would save my gpg keys (which I was going to do anyway) and do a test. And it all worked!
I'm now running F11 with my home dir firmly back in place! Now, to get rid of a 60G tgz file :) Brian On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Seth Vidal <skvidal@...> wrote:
-- Brian Johnson "And I will be even more undignified than this, and will be humble in my own sight." (2 Samuel 6:22) _______________________________________________ Dulug mailing list Dulug@... https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/dulug |
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