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 5670C15838C for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2024 20:09:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2D602BC095; Tue, 30 Jan 2024 20:08:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9B3BD2BC08E for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2024 20:08:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host86-152-228-249.range86-152.btcentralplus.com ([86.152.228.249] helo=[192.168.1.65]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1rUuPf-000000009Rp-29VR for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2024 20:08:55 +0000 Message-ID: <8f5371a5-07af-456e-8517-cb9bb664fac4@youngman.org.uk> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 20:08:57 +0000 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: en-GB From: Wol In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 84ce7cc3-6f0d-4a0d-b53b-1a7839abea5c X-Archives-Hash: d5db0af8c4df38f254c1d0f8304dbc2c On 30/01/2024 19:19, Rich Freeman wrote: > I'd echo the other advice. It really depends on your goals. If you just want a simple backup, I'd use something like rsync onto lvm or btrfs or something. I've got a little script that sticks today's date onto the snapshot name (used to snapshot / before I emerge :-) so if you run something like after each backup you know your snapshot is as it was that day. Rsync has a "backup in place option", so it will on;ly overwrite parts of the file that have changed, so if you use lvm or btrfs to snapshot the filesystem as part of the backup, you can then just mount that snapshot to get a complete filesystem image. Full backups for the price of incremental. Cheers, Wol