On 8/17/19 11:06 AM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
Any recommendations for something to use for a full disk backup and easy recovery? My first thought was dd or rsync.
I suggest rsync to an external disk. The result is mountable and requires no special anything to use.
For doing routine backups I use a homebrew script and rsync's link-dest feature: The result is a I get incremental backups, each is it's own directory, but common files are hard links to one copy of the file. I imagine having so many directory entries for relative few files might cause some resource problems with some file systems, but it seems to work with me. I ping-pong between different disks so I don't have all my data plugged together at once.
The result is pretty cool...yet it still doesn't require anything special to use.
Oh, and I do a fully encrypted file system, so it does require the passphrase to use.
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