On Sun, 2022-08-14 at 17:08 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote:
I just thought I would ask for opinions on backups that people
use.
I have thought about the old fashioned dump/restore; IDK if that
would
be good for modern use or not. My system isn't really that big. My
allotted size is 30 Gig, and it's not full. There's dar and xar and
fsarchiver. There's backing up with btrfs too.
I am thinking about back ups of the whole system and rpms I have
installed. And maybe not backing up logs, old settings like are
stored
in the root directory of the user(s) and root account.
Does anyone use any of these or other backups? I just want to
save
my rpms and not have to download all from scratch. IDK if dar or dump
would backup things like /sys or other system directories. I have
created dump backups but not really restored from scratch.
I used to use rsnapshot, which is basically a front-end to rsync, and
it worked pretty well. Nowadays I use BorgBackup because it does
compression and de-duplication. My backup device is a pair of old HDDs
mounted on a USB3 dock and formatted as a BTRFS filesystem with Raid-1.
poc