On Sep 30, 2024, Default User wrote: > (...) > So, is there a consensus on which would be better: > 1) continue to "mirror" drive A to drive B? > or, > 2) alternate backups daily between drives A and B?
Primarily, I do (1); though every so often I do a variation of (2). Backups from all the PCs in the house go to drive "A" (a spare desktop in the basement playing server) as a daily process. This is performed with rsync in a cronjob on the PCs dumping to dated directories and symlinking the "current", so the next run just hardlinks anything that hasn't changed. "Drive A" is backed up to "Drive B" (an external USB SSD; only mounted for the copy job, then unmounted afterwards). Every 6 months or so (yes, this should be more frequent, but meh) I do this with "Drive C", which otherwise lives at the parents house. -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860
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