From: Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: how do 9fans backup their Mac(book)?
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 04:21:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9A9D3E68-9496-4511-91B9-DCB2A491E244@9srv.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9f9c7658554a9f3fcb334aa6dbeb05ae@coraid.com>
On Sep 30, 2011, at 13:59, erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
> backup:
> 1. power down mac. remove hard drive.
> 2. stuff drive as one gigantic file into venti.
>
> restore:
> 1. copy your backup onto drive
> 2. install hard drive. power up mac.
In principal, that's roughly what vbackup does, except with file systems instead of whole disks and without taking things apart. I decided I didn't need to store each version of the OS files; if you want whole images, look at vbackup (or, yes, time machine).
I don't buy the backup/archive distinction as defined. It's totally coherent to say "I want a backup of data set xyz", where that isn't exactly one file system. I have backups of the data I care about, and I've judged that, for my usage, the moderate inconvenience and tiny risk of not having full FS backups is worth the trade off.
(note I don't dispute that backup/archive is an important distinction, I just think that draws the line in the wrong place.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-01 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-30 15:19 Axel Belinfante
2011-09-30 15:53 ` Anthony Sorace
2011-09-30 17:43 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-09-30 17:59 ` erik quanstrom
2011-09-30 19:21 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-09-30 19:42 ` erik quanstrom
2011-09-30 19:45 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-09-30 19:53 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-01 8:21 ` Anthony Sorace [this message]
2011-10-01 15:14 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-10-01 15:24 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-01 15:48 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-10-01 16:49 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2011-10-01 18:21 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-10-01 18:29 ` Anthony Sorace
2011-10-02 15:26 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-11-03 20:54 ` Michaelian Ennis
[not found] ` <CAAQydVjZ42C-GTEFT7E2t=dCQ35fvHzqjSYx9a3o+8v+5D1vfA@mail.gmail.c>
2011-11-03 20:57 ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-01 18:15 ` smiley
2011-11-01 18:57 ` Anthony Sorace
2011-09-30 19:50 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2011-10-01 15:21 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-09-30 20:01 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-09-30 21:15 ` Bakul Shah
2011-10-01 17:22 ` John Stalker
2011-10-02 0:35 ` steve jenkin
2011-10-02 1:28 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-02 2:28 ` steve jenkin
2011-10-02 2:37 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-02 3:07 ` steve jenkin
2011-10-02 12:38 ` Iruatã Souza
2011-10-03 3:57 ` steve jenkin
2011-10-03 4:02 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-02 13:30 ` Salman Aljammaz
2011-10-03 3:47 ` steve jenkin
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