[magazine] Pitch: backing up with duplicity/duply/deja-dup

[Link Dupont]

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.

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<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.

[magazine] Re: Pitch: backing up with duplicity/duply/deja-dup

[Paul W. Frields]

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!

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[magazine] Re: Pitch: backing up with duplicity/duply/deja-dup

[Justin W. Flory]

On 06/19/2017 02:35 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>  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.
> >
> > < snip >
>  
>  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!
>   
I'm also a big fan of this series idea for the same reasons as Paul.
Also as a user of duply, I think it would be super cool to see articles
explaining and showing how to set up backups with
duplicity/duply/deja-dup on the Magazine. Big +1 from me!

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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com