[ale] Backup opinions requested

[Horkan Smith]

I've been satisfied w/ 'dirvish' - it's a set of scripts wrapped around the rsync --link-dest=DIR option - meaning that files that are identical between backups get hard-linked together.  Dirvish handles the scheduling, naming conventions, cleanup, etc.  

That lets me maintain complete, restorable images in each backup tree, but only use the space for new or changed files.  It takes more space than the rdiff approach because it'll store a whole new copy of a file even if only a byte changed, but it can be examined and restored using normal filesystem tools.  It takes less space than a full copy, but isn't quite as safe.

I have 3 'server' or 'workstation' grade drives that I rotate through an external drive chassis at (sadly irregular) intervals for more physical copies.

later!
   horkan


On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 07:13:57PM +0000, Jonathan Meek via Ale wrote:
>Afternoon folks,
>
>I have recently put together a Buffalo NAS device with 2TB of mirrored
>storage. I am looking for opinions for setting up my desktop/laptop systems
>to do backups to the NAS. They all run Solus Linux so no need to
>accommodate for the other OSes for now. In the future, I might try backing
>up phones and tablets but that's a ways off.
>
>Also, thoughts on what to backup that may not be apparent on a Linux system
>would be great as well.
>
>I vaguely recall someone suggesting using local mail to incidate if a
>backup succeeded or failed but I am open to options.
>
>Regards,
>
>Jonathan

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