-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:37:40PM +0100, Francesco Porro wrote: > Hi guys, It's the first time I'm posting here. I'm both a Fedora and > Debian user. > > Which backup tool do you use? > At this time I feel comfortable with rsync [...]
rsync. To a LUKS-encrypted USB drive (my laptop's drive is LUKS, so it seemed to be a majot weak point to have all on an unencrpted thumb I could lose anytime ;-) The command is wrapped up in some 8 lines of bash making sure home exists and does basically: rsync -av --delete --filter="merge $home/.backup/filter" $home/ $backup/ deferring the filter to file ~/.backup/filter, which says: - /.cache/ - /.config/ [...other stuff to exclude...] dir-merge .backup-filter The nice tidbit is the "dir-merge": this way, I can drop a filter in each directory I don't want to back up completely, excluding all or part of its files/subdirs (e.g. the build subdir of some biggish thing or a typical junk download dir). I'm so happy with that set up that I don't even think of changing that. *Should* I some time be very bored, my next step would be to have a live/install Debian partition on the stick (which I would somehow keep up to date) to be able to do "bare metal" recovery, should my main machine go down in flames. KISS (although: rsync is smart, but simple? ;-) regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlilX7UACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZ87QCeN02KSr18o/U8W5CB8BeagWJT bFsAn3hydJq9QH7rQlsVB+5PvEKjPn1m =Hlvh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
