• Zeroc00l@sh.itjust.works
    34·
    1 天前

    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!

    • nomad@infosec.pub
      71·
      15 小时前

      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.

        • jcr@jlai.luFrançais
          2·
          5 小时前

          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
            1·
            2 小时前

            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.

          • JargonWagon@lemmy.world
            1·
            8 小时前

            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
              2·
              7 小时前

              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. 🤷

    • Ghoelian@piefed.socialEnglish
      27·
      1 天前

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

        • Samsy@lemmy.ml
          3·
          15 小时前

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

        • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          14 小时前

          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

          • Ekpu@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 小时前

            I am using restic and backrest on my yunohost server and I really like it! It is really set up and forget for me. Only the uploads to backblaze b2 are still triggered manually. Also did a full recovery from the backblaze repo (downloaded locally) without problems.

    • cRazi_man@europe.pubEnglish
      3·
      1 天前

      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