[Discuss] Linux backups

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

Thanks Rich, I'll take a look. I also use an exclude file, but most backups
have that.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
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On Fri, Dec 13, 2024, 4:48?PM Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 15:07:00 -0500
> Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > For the laptop, I'm considering either back in time or another
> > backup. And Dropbox is installed on my laptop. Unlike the tower, the
> > laptop will be turned off frequently, and also the backup device will
> > be an SSD. So, is like a backup that can wake up on boot and detect
> > if the backup device is mounted, but can be restricted to 1 backup a
> > day. Back in time can detect if the device is mounted, but I just
> > want recommendation for some other backup systems you have used.
>
> The two pre-rolled tools I use are restic and Relax-and-Recover. The
> former for file backups; the later for turnkey bare-metal recovery.
> Neither have on-boot run per se but that's fixable with a simple cron
> entry and a wrapper:
>
> # sleep 120 seconds after boot is complete then run backup wrapper
> @reboot sleep 120 && /path/to/backup/wrapper
>
> And then your wrapper does mount detection, etc.
>
> restic doesn't have a limit option but instead has pruning options. For
> example:
>
> # prune down to the most recent 5 snapshots
> restic ${OPTIONS} forget --keep-last 5 --prune --repo /path/to/repo
>
> ReaR is a turnkey disaster recovery system rather than a traditional
> backup system, and doesn't really do multiple backups. I think if you
> use any of the tar backends it will keep one previous version but I
> don't remember off-hand how that works or how to control it.
>
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