On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 10:20:36PM -0700, Link Dupont wrote: > Hi everyone! I had a thought for an article series, so I wrote up a > pitch (it's in the Pitches category in WP too). Here's the text, in > case the preview links don't work. > > -- > > <strong>Summary</strong>: A 3-part series on backing up with duplicity, > duply, and deja-dup > <strong>Description</strong>: I recently lost a large amount of data to > a RAID enclosure mistakenly configured as RAID0, and not backed up. > That got me thinking about an article series about backing up. > > <strong>Article 1: duplicity</strong> - duplicity is the basic tool > that the following two are built on, so I want to start at the basics. > duplicity is built with rsync, and has connectors to back up to local > disks as well as S3 buckets. I'll target an S3 bucket as my backup demo > work, since off-site and redundancy are two tenants of good backups. So > starting with duplicity, we'll walk through how to successfully back up > ~/Documents (and something big like ~/Photos) with <em>just</em> > duplicity. > > <strong>Article 2: duply</strong> - duply builds on duplicity, mainly > by creating backup profiles that save all the commandline settings > necessary to invoke duplicity. This article would re-factor the work > done in Article 1 to use duply profiles instead. This article would > also use duply to back up a server, since the profiles can easily be > run from within cron jobs. > > <strong>Article 3: deja-dup</strong> - deja-dup is a GNOME utility > that, like duply, stores profiles around duplicity. It makes creating > backup profiles super easy, and runs them on a regular frequency. This > article would refactor the work done in Article 1, using some guides > from Article 2, to backup ~/Documents and ~/Photos with deja-dup. If > possible, I would like to show how deja-dup will pick up the backups > created from within Article 1 using just duplicity; I'll need to mostly > write both articles to make sure that's the case. Not only do I like the idea, but the work you've done to build each article on the previous one. Also, IMHO one of the better thought out pitches I've seen recently -- well done! -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
