[Discuss] full disk backups

[Timothy Lyons]

Sorry if I'm jumping into this late but I'd be remiss if I didn't throw restic into the mix.
Simple, SECURE and flexible backups with multiple target options (local, cloud, etc).  Fully configurable as to retention.
I run it as a userland systemd scheduled job on my systems, backing up locally and to the cloud with different retention policies for each repository.

Great article I wish existed when I was hacking this together 😉 https://fedoramagazine.org/automate-backups-with-restic-and-systemd/

Project website:https://restic.net/

Design & Security information: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/100_references.html

Kindest Regards,
--Tim

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Timothy M. Lyons, CISSP

lyons at geekcq.com

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From: Discuss <discuss-bounces+lyons=geekcq.com at blu.org> on behalf of Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2019 08:43
To: Eric Chadbourne <eric.chadbourne at icloud.com>
Cc: BLU <discuss at blu.org>
Subject: Re: [Discuss] full disk backups

Eric Chadbourne <eric.chadbourne at icloud.com> writes:

>> 2. rsync
>>    pro: reasonably simple, restartable, more efficient than dd
>>    con: lots of small files make it slow
>>
>> 3. rsnapshot
>>    pro: reasonably simple, enforces cron usage, built on rsync,
>>         multiple snapshots possible
>>    con: same as rsync, plus multiple snapshots can make things
>>         messy

There is also a system called "rdiff-backup" which is sort of like
rsnapshot but different.  Let's you set up which directories or files
get backed up.  Always gives you a "current full image" with
incrementals back as far as you want to go.  FWIW, this is what I use to
backup my servers.

-derek
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