[Discuss] On Backups

[gaf.linux at gmail.com (Jerry Feldman)]

I have been using back in time. It uses rsync like many other Linux
backups. Has a decent GUI. You can set up backup times easily.
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Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org

On Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 5:18?PM Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:

> The deduplication discussion got me thinking about how I do backups of
> my two "work" stations (read: where I play games, watch movies, and do
> all my other not actually work things like writing this). I had been
> using rsync to replicate data to my file server (ZFS, redundant
> storage, etc.) but this really isn't efficient in total. So I went
> looking at what cool options are available. I found a pair of programs
> that do what I want:
>
> First is Relax-and-Recover, aka ReaR. It partitions and formats a USB
> drive to be a bootable turn-key bare metal recovery device. It's
> limited to recovering to identical hardware which is fine for me.
> Emergency bare metal recovery is what I want from this aspect of
> backups.
>
> Transparency: I have been using ReaR since January because it is bare
> metal recovery in a more convenient form than Clonezilla.
>
> Second is restic. This is for file and filesystem recovery. There are
> many similar programs: borg, rdiff-backup, etc., but what makes restic
> stand out for me is the backups can be mounted as filesystems via FUSE.
> Mounting a backup set and browsing it like any filesystem is absolutely
> brilliant for restoring files.
>
> My implementation is a bit odd. Or perhaps not. I have a pair of big
> SSDs in USB enclosures. Drive A has a ReaR backup of machine A and
> restic backups of important files from machine B; drive B has a ReaR
> backup of machine B and restic backups of important files from machine
> A. This should provide safety in the unlikely case that I lose a
> computer and either of the backup devices.
>
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