I have been using back in time. It uses rsync like many other Linux backups. Has a decent GUI. You can set up backup times easily. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf.li...@gmail.com> Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org
On Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 5:18 PM Rich Pieri <richard.pi...@gmail.com> wrote: > The deduplication discussion got me thinking about how I do backups of > my two "work" stations (read: where I play games, watch movies, and do > all my other not actually work things like writing this). I had been > using rsync to replicate data to my file server (ZFS, redundant > storage, etc.) but this really isn't efficient in total. So I went > looking at what cool options are available. I found a pair of programs > that do what I want: > > First is Relax-and-Recover, aka ReaR. It partitions and formats a USB > drive to be a bootable turn-key bare metal recovery device. It's > limited to recovering to identical hardware which is fine for me. > Emergency bare metal recovery is what I want from this aspect of > backups. > > Transparency: I have been using ReaR since January because it is bare > metal recovery in a more convenient form than Clonezilla. > > Second is restic. This is for file and filesystem recovery. There are > many similar programs: borg, rdiff-backup, etc., but what makes restic > stand out for me is the backups can be mounted as filesystems via FUSE. > Mounting a backup set and browsing it like any filesystem is absolutely > brilliant for restoring files. > > My implementation is a bit odd. Or perhaps not. I have a pair of big > SSDs in USB enclosures. Drive A has a ReaR backup of machine A and > restic backups of important files from machine B; drive B has a ReaR > backup of machine B and restic backups of important files from machine > A. This should provide safety in the unlikely case that I lose a > computer and either of the backup devices. > > -- > \m/ (--) \m/ > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.blu.org > https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
