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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:54:31 +0000 Message-ID: <1958102.PYKUYFuaPT@rogueboard> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 On Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:15:09 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > I need to set up some sort of automated backup on a couple Gentoo > machines (typical desktop software development and home use). One of > them used rsnapshot in the past but the crontab entries that drove > that have vanished :/ (presumably during a reinstall or upgrade -- > IIRC, it took a fair bit of trial and error to get the crontab entries > figured out). > > I believe rsnapshot ran nightly and kept daily snapshots for a week, > weekly snapshots for a month, and monthly snapshots for a couple > years. > > Are there other backup solutions that people would like to suggest I > look at to replace rsnapshot? I was happy enough with rsnapshot (when > it was running), but perhaps there's something else I should consider? > > -- > Grant You have probably seen the backup packages suggested in this wiki page? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Backup and what's available in the tree: https://packages.gentoo.org/categories/app-backup You may also want to consider integral filesystem solutions like btrfs and zfs, depending on your needs and how often your data change, as well as related scripts; e.g.: https://github.com/masc3d/btrfs-sxbackup --nextPart22169591.EfDdHjke4D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. 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