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Rsnapshot
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Escaping Surveillance Capitalism, at Scale
Two things I want to try this month are:
- Backup software that continuously monitors changes but runs only once a month
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Not openSUSE specific but what's the best backup utility?
I'm using rsnapshot. It's based on rsync. It's fully automated and I make daily and monthly backups backup to my NAS. The biggest benefit of rsnapshot is that it uses hardlinks. So only changed files are backed up. It doesn't have a GUI though, you have to set a configuration file.
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Criticize my backup strategy
For backups, I'm using rsnapshot.
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Newbie - How to (image) Backup a rasberry PI
It's been a while but I think rsnapshot is what you're looking for.
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Python Port of 600 Line Bash Script: rsync-time-machine.py for Rsync Backups
The description sounds like it does largely the same job as rsnapshot (https://rsnapshot.org/). What does yours do differently from rsnapshot?
- Redundancy and bit-rot protection on a single drive
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The various scripts I use to back up my home computers using SSH and rsync
His backup rotation algorithm is very close to what rsnapshot does.
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Which service to backup your important files ?
rsnapshot for data. ansible [1] for config management no backing up configuration is not needed, just revert configuration changes in ansible and re-apply. Occasional libvirt VM snapshots before risky operations.
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Ask HN: How do you manage your important personal documents and other data?
> where do you store and backup your personal data
A RAID array of physical drives in a local PC.
> How do you run your backups?
rsnapshot (https://rsnapshot.org/) driven from cron.
> How do you manage encryption keys, etc?
Stored in files on plural disks plus a printed to paper backup.
> What considerations drove your solution?
Must be 100% under my control -- "someone else's disks" must not ever be the primary backup medium.
TimeShift
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Mysterious Timeshift update
Version v22.06.6 Latest
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How to include /root and /home/user in timeshift snapshots
What I tried is to add "exclude" : [ "+ /home/user1/**", "+ /root/**", "+ /home/user2/**", ], to /etc/timeshift.json as per this post but the files within those folders still aren't included in the backup.
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Best configuration for bare hypervisor distro FOR DESKTOP VMs
Are you sure you need a full on virtual machine, rather than a system snapshotting tool like Snapper or Timeshift?
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I've been using Linux for a week , and i'm starting to like it
I would highly advise installing timeshift for making backups. There have been times where I thought I was doing something benign and I basically screwed something up major. Using timeshift you can easily revert back and it saves you from so much pain
- Cloned my Drive to a larger Driver But can't use the Space
- rsnapshot-like rotation backup tool to integrate in my scripts
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Properly backing up a running Linux system
Can't say much about your tar command, but if you did not checked it out already, take a look at Timeshift for system snapshots and rollback of changes. afaik you can just restore a snapshot on a blank drive. as far i see you can backup and restore EFI / boot as well. but never used it myself so can't say much about it.
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What are you doing for your backups?
I use backintime to back up files in my home directory, and use Timeshift for backing up system settings (really useful if you're messing around with your grub and fuck something up, speaking from experience).
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Some discoveries from investigating the SteamOS recovery image
For casual users, not really any benefit to using btrfs unless you want to use this https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift (and even then you don't need it, it just helps)
- Windows 11 and its forced "telemetry" made me switch to Linux. And I have to say - it's great. So why the hell isn't more people switching? And what's your fav distro?
What are some alternatives?
Back In Time - Back In Time - An easy-to-use backup tool for GNU Linux using rsync in the back
snapper - Manage filesystem snapshots and allow undo of system modifications
BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.
restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program
Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!
Duplicity - Unnoficial fork of Duplicity - Bandwidth Efficient Encrypted Backup
btrbk - Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes
Backup - Easy full stack backup operations on UNIX-like systems.
rclone - "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files
Kup Backup System - A backup scheduler for KDE's Plasma desktop