Episode 78: For When You Need Backups
News & Personal Updates
- 0:04:56 Does Using Windows Make you Dislike Windows?
- 0:12:03 Debian wins as best distro of 2011. LMDE not far behind then?
http://www.tuxradar.com/content/best-distro-2011 - 0:14:37 From the Linux Mint Forums: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=143&t=78704 “The decision was taken to migrate our KDE and Fluxbox editions to LMDE. Going forward our project will support 2 desktops with a frozen Ubuntu base (Gnome and LXDE) and 4 desktops on top of a rolling Debian base (Gnome, KDE, Xfce and Fluxbox).”
- 0:15:35 KDE 5 announcements. Will kde 5 be the next kde 4?
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Plans-for-KDE-s-fifth-generation-announced-1319315.html
- 0:20:28 Btrfs will not be the default file systems in Fedora 16 after all.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTc2OA
- 0:23:46 Brian Proffitt has picked his top Linux Distros for 2011. Do you agree (some of us don’t)
http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/481201:the-2011-top-7-best-linux-distributions-for-you
Main Topic
- 0:28:20 Backup Solutions
Website of the Week
Tip of the Week
- This week’s tip allows you to keep to directories synced.
- rsync -zvr /var/opt/installation/inventory/ /root/temp
Announcements
- The Nottingham LUG is holding a talk by Richard Stallman August 24th in Nottingham, UK http://stallman.eventbrite.com/
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I think this is the link Rob mentioned: http://mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/index.html
mockturtl,
You’re exactly right. That’s the one I started from so many years ago!
there is a problem in the feeds.
particularly in the link of the mp3 file in this episode. (mp instead of mp3)
see http://www.mintcast.org/feed/podcast
but this http://feeds.feedburner.com/mintcastpodcast is just fine.
Minor spelling error 🙂
should be fixed now.
Thanks
Hey Guys,
Do you edit the podcast in Audacity?
If you do, have a look at Analyze/Silence Finder……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..for all those nasty pauses!
Great show by the way.
Another good podcast, I enjoyed listening to it.
One important aspect of performing backups that was not covered in this podcast,verification.
Verify the backup is valid after creating it and then periodically reverify the backup.
Indeed, it produces a sick feeling to realize a backup is unusable when you need to use it.
Another good idea is to create a second verified copy of a backup, storing it in a different location from the original backup.
Debian turns 18! http://thank-you.debian.net/