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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 11-Jun-2018 20:31:55 EDT Strypey

   I understand why permissions are useful and necessary in #GNU #Linux systems, but at times, they are a royal pain in the proverbial! If I had a pancake for every times I've moved non-sensitive movie, music etc files to or from a USB, or across a LAN, and ended up with weird permissions issues about who can read them, or rename them, or move them between folders, or delete them, I would have massive stack of pancakes.

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 11-Jun-2018 20:34:34 EDT Strypey

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      Right now, I'm trying to teach myself to use #rsync for backups. I'm using -a to preserve a few symlinks in my folders (eg for associating photos in a photos folder with related project files in a records folder), and hitting all sorts of weird permissions errors. #YUNOWork Argggggghhhh! :<

      1. notklaatu (klaatu@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 11-Jun-2018 21:39:13 EDT notklaatu

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         @strypey I heartily suggest rdiff-backup. Al lthe convenience of rsync combined with diff'ed backups. Super simple, and when you have to recover, so much more precise that an rsync dump.

         Here's my tutorial about it. Pretty quick read.
         http://slackermedia.info/handbook/doku.php?id=backup