On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 01:39:12PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > I'm going to suggest that amanda is not the best solution for > you in this situation.
I was actually starting to think the same thing myself as I was writing my original mail last night, but I do intend to expand my setup to include more of my network later, at which point this setup will start to make more sense. > I'll take a wild guess and suggest that your SSD is 1 TB or > smaller. Two 960GB SSDs, yes. One mounted on / with a small handful of partitions and the other one big partition mounted on /opt. > > Let's take a cost-effective 2TB spinning disk and partition it in 2 > equal-sized chunks. On odd-numbered days, copy your entire SSD > to partition 1 via dd. On weekends, copy your entire SSD to > partition 2 via dd. Make sure you have a GRUB boot CD or USB > stick available. > > Now you have an image available that's no more than 2 days old, > and another which is no more than 7 days old. You should be able > to recover a single file that you accidentally deleted by simply > mounting the filesystem and copying it over. You can recover > from a whole-SSD failure by booting with GRUB and then picking > the right partition to boot from; when you have time, you can go > buy a new SSD. Makes sense, until I get to the point of being more organised about backing up more of my network. Thanks for your advice Mark
