[ale] Backup opinions requested

[James Sumners]

I was going to suggest duplicity itself. I really don't know anything
better outside of simply rsyncing everything.

On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 17:39 Jonathan Meek via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Thanks for the input guys! I ended going with deja-dup, which uses
> duplicitiy on the backend for the two systems.
>
> I will let you all know how it goes when I do restore from it next week
> since we all know backups are useless if you can't restore from them.
>
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Horkan Smith <ale at horkan.net> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>>> Ale mailing list
>>> Ale at ale.org
>>> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>>> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
>>> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Horkan Smith
>> 678-777-3263 cell, ale at horkan.net
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>
-- 
James Sumners
http://james.sumners.info/ (technical profile)
http://jrfom.com/ (personal site)
http://haplo.bandcamp.com/ (music)
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20171223/695a9af5/attachment.html>