[PLUG] Rsync advice needed

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Sat Jan 25 16:43:34 UTC 2020


On Sat, 25 Jan 2020, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Jan 2020, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
>> But now I am considering setting up a cron job to do backups to the 1TB
>> SSD. I didn't do this before because my old computer had only 512G for /
>> and /home, and I often needed the SSD for storage. My new computer has a
>> 1TB NVMe for / and /home, and each partition is only about 30% used, so I
>> no longer need the SSD for storage.
>
>> Added thought: This does not need to be a clone of the partitions with dd
>> or such. I just want to be able to recover a single file or folder that I
>> shouldn't have deleted.
>> 
>> Suggestions welcome!
>
> John,
>
> There are many available backup options. For a long time I've used dirvish
> which uses rsync to make incremental backups. The initial setup can take a
> bit of time but once that's done it just does its thing and you don't need
> to pay any attention to it.

rsnapshot does something similar:

   https://github.com/rsnapshot/rsnapshot

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Paul Heinlein
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