From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1EE0615815E for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2024 10:54:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 056D6E2B8F; Sun, 4 Feb 2024 10:54:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ezvan.fr (unknown [IPv6:2a05:d018:653:9f03:36af:babd:759a:bdee]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56DFFE2B8A for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2024 10:54:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ezvan.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FA352712E for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2024 10:54:08 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=ezvan.fr; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:content-type:in-reply-to :from:from:content-language:references:subject:subject :user-agent:mime-version:date:date:message-id:received:received; s=mail; t=1707044046; x=1708858447; bh=+MjC3QH+1OxuRQXhVVfdfWUJ 0j5Izn2ChvIllhDbOcs=; b=JI97QfwnPrJn/RZMjS57rcISa7VN571iUPxKTQnp rMSNu3MLn2ZK61IPnm6RP1OoIGEKRlnJQ0pAiHfDkpY4ElsA2UBej0Bi5A2F6i7/ 5WJm61baTlWEHYDnpoRYdxpuUIlPxoHC8gAxxsQ5Ffp9L5MDY5J3hifGoe/08yyt jok= Received: from mail.ezvan.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ip-10-0-0-51.eu-west-1.compute.internal [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ML7Q0qjGyLDJ for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2024 10:54:06 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <77544fe9-2f2a-4450-aa77-8a261808e9c7@ezvan.fr> Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2024 11:54:05 +0100 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for backup scheme? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: Content-Language: fr-FR, en-US From: Paul Ezvan In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 7dd07ef7-e5bd-4ef2-be30-43e62772ea42 X-Archives-Hash: 38f8095d8d1ccc43de6934e9784eebc9 Le 30/01/2024 à 19:15, Grant Edwards a écrit : > 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 I use restic [1] with the S3 backend. It manages snapshots and supports several backends. It is way faster than the previous backup solution I've used (dejadup). It came handy several times when I had to restore a specific file from a point in time. 1: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-backup/restic