From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jul 20 03:39:20 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 531D2DA5C55 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 03:39:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roger@qxxy.com) Received: from mail-ua0-x236.google.com (mail-ua0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c08::236]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 10D307EA06 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 03:39:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roger@qxxy.com) Received: by mail-ua0-x236.google.com with SMTP id 35so13916244uax.3 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:39:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=qxxy.com; s=google; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=wbvNOs2mcNecuNrQXd5patZhDT+EEhYD8tQWif3LkP8=; b=SQouyUUVv26fPU5WMcgWtfekc8oB08hae0Qs2ojT7pRX59LH+u0FLxIdjRf5jxFDJE N9japajoU7+2ZoOTyKpf+EP+0dttcABZESFDKOFsmf5Xw5uVINwyJp1ATb2XNCR8Rwvd r8v1u2KYsuenTaHYkKEFaeoYx+E06AbjVaDT0= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=wbvNOs2mcNecuNrQXd5patZhDT+EEhYD8tQWif3LkP8=; b=k7iiYLkKo7js8iFGlSwPCjsVGQRshFVw0JYDPAZCgoBkl12pS0um2hSz3bQXPL2qo9 FqjXIxKCJ4wT+G2gZSaU6M7wNR4tGUk3IPwQUYnv+rHvj1RGLwNVtXsO+ln0OK3/T+qS rzpvHlacMxsHXEDELRNRonVNyLQiFNswhPFhKhHQjokwxWZ0BnQ+9fbWj35b2jEu16l/ 3xx++91yeMDKO1qe6TaQk0gr6UrgQ2RekdLSiIlTwAxSkGQ46NGFG8jLmLZs7hQr/tjT J5BU3NRtUz/KCbKWnQ9AjRqzX3LcgX+JEnh02kLU2+pQ16Oqh2DhaImZqa4WkLujinAq cs0g== X-Gm-Message-State: AIVw1133Vh2jZXmCtjEST0xPsJnqSXBiC0Aso+i+mrZQsC4b17Xoos/9 Rc+lXjEnGbOP0Q18YIw/Wm5zHsqAYnt9 X-Received: by 10.31.168.65 with SMTP id r62mr739728vke.175.1500521959232; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:39:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.103.149.11 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:38:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [50.90.163.130] In-Reply-To: <20170719151943.GA1859@avalon.thwn> References: <20170719151943.GA1859@avalon.thwn> From: Roger Pate Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 23:38:38 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Can I use FreeBSD as a desktop system? To: fml Cc: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 03:39:20 -0000 On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 11:19 AM, fml wrote: > - backups (the usual suspects; since I need encrypted off-site backups > I'm investigating Tarsnap, avaiable as package); Tarsnap works great on FreeBSD. I have this script in my crontab: #!/bin/sh -ue cd / tarsnap=--tarsnap=/usr/local/bin/tarsnap # /usr/local/bin not in default PATH from cron /root/bin/tarsnap-backup "$tarsnap" roger home/roger/serve/hg home/roger/vault home/roger/projects case "$(date +%d)" in 01|15) /root/bin/tarsnap-prune-old "$tarsnap" --keep-days=30 roger ;; esac Where tarsnap-backup and tarsnap-prune-old are from my repo https://bitbucket.org/rdpate/one-off/src/360557bf714ec5b3b0f6a06f085fb8037b333a13 (as well as cronic, used to call the above script from cron).