[Discuss] On Backups

[richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:47:33 -0400
Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:

> I'll be adding this to my backup routine, if I can set it to only back
> up the system stuff, leaving the data to be backed up by rsync.

ReaR is very configurable. To exclude /data/excluded you add this line
to your /etc/rear/local.conf:

EXCLUDE_BACKUP=( ${EXCLUDE_BACKUP[@]} /data/excluded )

> My rsync system already does this. All that's needed is to mount my
> backup drive read-only and copy off it.

Yes, as does mine, but it doesn't scale so well at 4TB+ with millions
of small files like my Steam library.

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