• Zeroc00l@sh.itjust.works
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    11 days ago

    Novice homelaber here, is this just a case of apt update & upgrade or is there different commands for security and kernel updates? Also what’s your preferred backup/restore software? Thanks!

        • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          10 days ago

          Oh, never heard about it. A quick research showed me that restic is a very viable solution. Thanks for mentioning it, I added it to my comment.

          While researching, I also came across a fancy WebUI, which is mostly what non-CLI users want: backrest

        • Samsy@lemmy.ml
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          10 days ago

          I configured restic once, forget about it and saved my files because it was making backups since forever.

          • JargonWagon@lemmy.world
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            10 days ago

            Your note is very interesting about the difference between the commands and how autoremove will automatically remove stuff before or after the upgrade is performed. Should it always be done after, or are there instances when running it before is more beneficial? Is there any need to do both like this:

            # sudo apt --update --autoremove upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y
            • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              10 days ago

              I can’t really imagine a benefit to --autoremove except for keeping old packages a bit longer before removing them.

              Eg, if you run apt --update --autoremove upgrade -y once a day you’ll keep your prior-to-currently-running-version kernel packages a day longer than if you ran autoremove immediately after each upgrade.

              To make things more confusing: the new-ish apt full-upgrade command seems to remove most of what apt autoremove wants to… but not quite everything. 🤷

        • jcr@jlai.luFrançais
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          10 days ago

          Incredible that it’s not written everywhere, I always wanted to use something like this without the " update && upgrade" which looks like is not working oftentimes

          • TerraRoot@sh.itjust.works
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            10 days ago

            Is it really not written? I saw apt upgrade --update and knew the standard shortcut would be -u, but that didn’t work so I tried -U, bingo bongo off I went.

    • nomad@infosec.pub
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      10 days ago

      Kernel updates are usually held back and need to be selected manually. E.g. apt-get install linux-image-amd64.

      I prefer rsync for private backups and employ bareos in my company for all servers.

    • cRazi_man@europe.pubEnglish
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      11 days ago

      I’m not the person you asked the question of. I’m a fellow novice homelaber.

      I use Kopia to backup my data folders and Docker container data. Works really well. The project for this weekend is to set offsite backups to be uploaded to iDrive.

      When I update I use this:

      sudo apt update && \ sudo apt upgrade -y && \ sudo apt full-upgrade -y && \ flatpak update -y 2>/dev/null; \ sudo apt autoremove -y && \ sudo apt autoclean && \ sudo journalctl --vacuum-time=7d

    • Ghoelian@piefed.socialEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Nope it’s just apt update & upgrade. Iirc apt tells you when the kernel was updated and needs a reboot as well.