From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <138575260903100719m1a3001bdld235cf0ae26f059d@mail.gmail.com> References: <138575260903100719m1a3001bdld235cf0ae26f059d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:35:49 +0000 Message-ID: <6a3ae47e0903100735h5e0a4f9wfe928e6effe2751b@mail.gmail.com> From: Robert Raschke To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] venti conf Topicbox-Message-UUID: b862b386-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:19 PM, hugo rivera wrote: > Hello, > I am a little confused about setting up venti (on linux). > I followed the instructions found on the wiki, and venti is up. But > now I am lost; as far as I understood (from the man pages) I have to > run vac every time I want to backup something and then unvac it every > time I want to recover it, right? I heard many times, here and > elsewhere, that you can configure venti to perform a backup of the > whole system say at 3:00 am, then am I supposed to create some kind of > rc script to do this (using vac, of course)? and where yesterday fits > into this? I feel that I am missing a big part here. I want to be able > to backup my home directory every day at 3:00 am. > Sorry if the question has an obvious answer, but I cannot see the > whole venti picture yet. > -- > Hugo Venti is just a block storage, I think you're wanting to learn about fossil. But I have no idea if you can run fossil in p9p. Robby