Thanks Rich, I'll take a look. I also use an exclude file, but most backups have that.
-- Jerry Feldman <gaf.li...@gmail.com> Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org On Fri, Dec 13, 2024, 4:48 PM Rich Pieri <richard.pi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 15:07:00 -0500 > Jerry Feldman <gaf.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > For the laptop, I'm considering either back in time or another > > backup. And Dropbox is installed on my laptop. Unlike the tower, the > > laptop will be turned off frequently, and also the backup device will > > be an SSD. So, is like a backup that can wake up on boot and detect > > if the backup device is mounted, but can be restricted to 1 backup a > > day. Back in time can detect if the device is mounted, but I just > > want recommendation for some other backup systems you have used. > > The two pre-rolled tools I use are restic and Relax-and-Recover. The > former for file backups; the later for turnkey bare-metal recovery. > Neither have on-boot run per se but that's fixable with a simple cron > entry and a wrapper: > > # sleep 120 seconds after boot is complete then run backup wrapper > @reboot sleep 120 && /path/to/backup/wrapper > > And then your wrapper does mount detection, etc. > > restic doesn't have a limit option but instead has pruning options. For > example: > > # prune down to the most recent 5 snapshots > restic ${OPTIONS} forget --keep-last 5 --prune --repo /path/to/repo > > ReaR is a turnkey disaster recovery system rather than a traditional > backup system, and doesn't really do multiple backups. I think if you > use any of the tar backends it will keep one previous version but I > don't remember off-hand how that works or how to control it. > > -- > \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
