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| 16:36 | < abudhabi> | It strikes me that github has become a replacement for the old-timey FTP servers offering miscellany in /pub. |
| 16:45 | <@celticminstrel> | XD |
| 16:45 | <@celticminstrel> | I keep my miscellany on my own hosting but yeah, it does seem like some people have started using GitHub like that. |
| 16:48 | < abudhabi> | I'm literally using it as a character sheet database for tabletop RPGs. 😄 |
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| 18:43 | < abudhabi> | Hmmmm. |
| 18:43 | < abudhabi> | I'm pondering how to do a `dd` backup of my home folder. |
| 18:45 | < abudhabi> | Does this sort of thing need a live medium restart, or will it be sufficient to log out, then `dd` from a root prompt? |
| 18:47 | <&ToxicFrog> | You..can't dd a folder |
| 18:47 | <&ToxicFrog> | Like, the contents aren't going to be in a contiguous region of whatever block device the filesystem it's on lives on |
| 18:48 | <&ToxicFrog> | The closest you can come is a dd backup of the entire filesystem your home directory lives on |
| 18:49 | < abudhabi> | I suppose that also works, though it requires a bit more space. |
| 18:59 | < abudhabi> | OK. It also answers my question - this is a live medium run. |
| 18:59 | | * abudhabi looks at usage analysis of / |
| 18:59 | < abudhabi> | Turns out /home accounts for almost 90% of this. |
| 19:03 | < abudhabi> | In other news: oh, wow. The PDF reader, after I've reinstalled the entire system, doesn't rescale the page when I click around in bookmarks. |
| 19:03 | < abudhabi> | Absolute QOL win. |
| 19:03 | < abudhabi> | I hated it when I was zoomed in at a readable scale, then I click a bookmark, and it rescales to show the entire damn page. |
| 19:29 | <&ToxicFrog> | Personally, I would take backups using a proper deduplicating backup system like borg -- dd is more for imaging entire devices where you need to be able to restore the filesystem in its entirety (or the entire disk, including the disklabel) to its original state |
| 19:31 | < abudhabi> | I kind of like the simplicity of "bring me everyone" that this solution brings. I am a grugbrain, and things being complicated isn't a positive. |
| 19:32 | <&ToxicFrog> | In that case -- switch to singleuser mode, umount home, dd it somewhere (possibly piped through a compression tool), mount it again. |
| 19:32 | <&McMartin> | I forget what the Linux equivalent of ditto is, but at the inside-the-filesystem level that would be the one. |
| 19:32 | < abudhabi> | ToxicFrog: Wait, what? You said above I can't just dd a folder. |
| 19:33 | <&McMartin> | (In that it copies files, preserves attributes, and replicates internal symlinks in a transportable way |
| 19:33 | <&McMartin> | I think TF is assuming that /home is its own volume |
| 19:33 | < abudhabi> | It's not. I've got /boot/efi and / and that's it. |
| 19:36 | <&ToxicFrog> | I was in fact assuming that. If /home is on the same filesystem as / you're going to have to boot a livesystem to do this safely. |
| 20:07 | < abudhabi> | Right. |
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