I used chatGPT to work up a backup program that tracked rsync backups as I wanted and could report which backups needed to be run and which ones should be started fresh because too many rsync runs from my home dir to the target dir. It’s call Loci, and it’s on codeberg.

My system came with Python3 installed. Debian 12.

Ah, Improvements!

Looks like a line by line translation from the python. Will you use it to backup your home directory?

@[email protected] I see what you’re asking. You’re wondering if, instead of storing a duplicate file when another backup set already contains it, I could use a hardlink to point to the file already stored in that other set?

I have a system where I create a backup set for each day of the week. When I do a backup for that day, I update the set, or if it’s out of date, I replace it entirely with a fresh backup image (After 7 backups to that set). But if the backup sets became inter-dependent, removing or updating one set could lead to problems with others that rely on files in the first set.

Does that make sense? I am asking because I am not familiar with the utilities you mentioned and may be taking your post wrong.

Especially one that lets you know how long it’s been since you took time to run a backup, keeps track of which set of backups could be updated, and which should be refreshed, and keeps a log file up to date and in .csv format so you can mess with it in a spreadsheet?

That’s ok Like any landing you can walk away from. Any code that runs to spec is good, much could be better.

Yeah, no problem… I started out with just bare rsync - but I did the backup infrequently and needed my notes to know the command. Then I wrote a simple shell script to run the rsync for me. Then I decided I needed more than one backup, redundancy is good. Then I wanted to keep track of the backups so I had it write to .backuplog then that file started getting dated (every time I run a “sun” backup the record of the previous one is useless) so Finally TaDa! loci is born.

It’s also to help me learn python. And it works for me. : ^ )

They probably named it HORNET for a reason - think Japanese Murder Hornets… What Could Possibly Go Wrong??

It will probably start out as little glitches and slowdowns to destroy faith in your system (“Windows works right all the time”) a random 2 second pauses. Finally one day every Linux box in the world crashes, all at the same time, because some ‘dummy’ in Microsoft deleted the private signing key.

There is also Workspace Behavior=>Screen Locking where one may set automatic screen lock, ( I uncheck both boxes )

My first distro was Yggdrasil

Too bad you can’t post a usage notice that anything scrapped to train an AI will be charged and will owe $some-huge-money, then pepper the site with bogus facts, occasionally ask various AI about the bogus fact and use that to prove scraping and invoice the AI’s company.

That’s not to say any other OS effort is not also a soap opera. I bet Microsoft has its fair share of drama, too; it’s just that no one sees it because the development effort is proprietary.

Even with experimental it hangs…

Ok, currently, Timberborn will launch but will hang hard after a short time. I used the wrong engine (?) so I will try “Experimental” and report back.

btw, I am a he/him : ^ ) But thanks for being inclusive.

the i7 was originally mean to be a my take away bridge over tailscale when I am away from home, and a programming machine (or perhaps a look up machine while I program on the i5 desktop)

I have loaded the laptop i7 laptop up with Debian 12, next is Steam so I will try it there. The machine I was going to run it on would not complete a launch and just sat there with the fans going full blast and a black screen…

The issue so far is that I bought the Windows version of Timberborn on Steam, so it won’t install on my Linux box. Do you suppose since I own the Windows version, the makers of Timberborn would allow me to download the appropriate files for Linux? I thought I had gotten it working last night, but instead I was just streaming it from the windows box.