[Discuss] full disk backups

[gaf at gapps.blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I currently use Back In Time https://backintime.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
This is a snapshot like system with a GUI front end. I used to use
rsnapshot. Both are based on rsync. The reason I switched was because Dick
Miller swears by it and I wanted to try it. I actually preferred the
rsnapshot format, but backintime essentially does the same thing.


On Mon, Aug 19, 2019, 10:38 AM Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 14:00:52 +0000
> Timothy Lyons <lyons at geekcq.com> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Sorry... but... the terms "backup", "secure" and "cloud" do not belong
> in the same sentence. If it's in a public cloud then it can be
> compromised by a third party bad actor. Witness the Code Spaces breach.
> Not saying you shouldn't use public cloud storage; saying you should be
> cautious in your trust of it.
>
> On the subject of Clonezilla: it's not a backup tool. It's an imaging
> tool. It can be used as part of a backup system: the physical volume
> analogue to copying a virtual machine's vdisk files to other storage.
> Using it this way is cumbersome on Linux systems where realistically
> the only thing that needs a low-level copy is the boot block of the
> boot device and that only once. It would be more useful on a dual-boot
> Windows/Linux machine using Clonezilla command line to clone the
> Windows system volumes.
>
> --
> Rich Pieri
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