On 30/01/2024 19:19, Rich Freeman wrote:
I'd echo the other advice. It really depends on your goals.
If you just want a simple backup, I'd use something like rsync onto lvm or btrfs or something. I've got a little script that sticks today's date onto the snapshot name (used to snapshot / before I emerge :-) so if you run something like after each backup you know your snapshot is as it was that day.
Rsync has a "backup in place option", so it will on;ly overwrite parts of the file that have changed, so if you use lvm or btrfs to snapshot the filesystem as part of the backup, you can then just mount that snapshot to get a complete filesystem image. Full backups for the price of incremental.
Cheers, Wol
