New Toys

[Roger M. Jenson]

My primary workstation has the following specs.

I decided to install an ICY DOCK Full Metal 6 x 2.5" SATA HDD & SSD HotSwap Backplane Cage Mobile Rack for 5.25" Drive Bay - ToughArmor MB996SP-6SB in an empty 5.25" bay to work with a stack of 2.5" spinning rust and SSDs laying around collecting dust.

I currently have a two drive rotation of external USB hard drives to have one in a bank safe deposit box as my offsite offline backup. I may buy a few extra drive trays to use instead of the external USB drives.

Having Fun,
Roger M. Jenson

 

[Tom]

IcyDock has some really cool toys, and I've long wished I had applications (and $$) for some of them.

 

I'm trying to use TimeShift to do some backups to external drives. It's a little dicey, but I'm getting backups, so that's good. What are people using for that? TimeShift is a slight improvement over the Rsync scripts I've written, but only a slight one. It's twitchy to use on machines that don't have a desktop, but it can be done.

 

-T

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[CompMAS2]

Take a look into Syncthing (https://syncthing.net/).  It allows secure syncing of data across the Internet or on the same network through encrypted tunnels.  The best part is it is pretty easy to set up, has clients for all OSes including mobile, and it's free (open source and $). It supports direct syncing to have both sides keep in sync with each other, or you can do one way setups purely for backup.  It does support keeping a set number of file versions when modifications are made to files multiple styles of versioning.

I use it to sync phone photos, pictures, and documents and my laptops data to a central backup point running a RAID array.  From there that syncs to another location for off-site backup.  This has eliminated the need for paid services.

Regards,
Matt Starr

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[Roger M. Jenson]

Syncthing and I are old friends.

Have Fun,
Roger M. Jenson

[Tom]

Hear now my tale of two cities computers.

 

Both were upgraded in place to Fedora 40, then one of them was upgraded in place to Fedora 41.

 

This one, being called Simak, of the tribe of Fedora 40,  works (the daily job for Timeshift runs) but how??? I have timeshift jobs every day at 02:00.

systemctl says that crond is running.  

 

I can't understand this, since there is no timeshift-daily file, and the others are not doing it:

[root@simak ~]# ll /etc/cron.d/

total 12

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 128 Jun 30 2024 0hourly

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 158 Feb 3 17:14 timeshift-boot

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 137 Feb 3 17:14 timeshift-hourly

 

# cat /etc/cron.d/timeshift-boot

SHELL=/bin/bash

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

MAILTO=""

@reboot root sleep 10m && timeshift --create --scripted --tags B

 

# cat /etc/cron.d/timeshift-hourly

SHELL=/bin/bash

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

MAILTO=""

0 * * * * root timeshift --check --scripted

 

The crontab file in /etc is empty. Running crontab -l results in "No crontab for root"

/etc/cron.daily has only a script for Brave, which doesn't reference Timeshift.

 

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This one, being known as Swift, a member of the tribe of Fedora 41, worketh not (the job for timeshift availeth not)

systemctl says that crond is running.

 

# ll /etc/cron.d/timeshift_daily

-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 211 Mar 5 16:53 /etc/cron.d/timeshift_daily

 

# cat /etc/cron.d/timeshift_daily

SHELL=/bin/bash

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

MAILTO=""

0 2 * * * root /usr/bin/timeshift --create --snapshot-device /dev/sdc1 --tags D --rsync >> /var/log/timeshift.log 2>&1

 

 

 

[Roger M. Jenson]

Is Fedora using systems timers?

Have Fun,
Roger M. Jenson

[Roger M. Jenson]

systems timers

[Roger M. Jenson]

systemd timers

Bitten by autocorrect on ChromOS!

[Tom]

Fedora certainly CAN use that, but do I have to?

Is TimeShift smart enough to do that when you install it?

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