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)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0475D15838C for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:15:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 685C72BC083; Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:15:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [116.202.254.214]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (prime256v1) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EFA762BC019 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:15:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rUsdd-00015z-NZ for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2024 19:15:13 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for backup scheme? Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:15:09 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) 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 X-Archives-Salt: 04ab6807-8bb2-473a-971e-1ae93946c043 X-Archives-Hash: afb509d94f20252a888f52fa14aaf4b0 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