How does Zig Forums back up their Chinese girl cartoons? I had been using Time Machine on the Mac, which worked with no questions asked, but I'm looking for something less gay now.
What I am looking for is an automated solution which will back up my files to a local hard drive that's plugged into my computer. Also, should I back up the entire machine or just my home directory? I think the home directory should be sufficient because the system itself can be just rebuilt by installing the packages again.
I would also like to have several versions of my files, so I can restore some file I deleted last week even if I have already made a new hourly backup. And of course the backup needs to be encrypted or otherwise protected somehow. Really important things like GPG keys or passwords would need to be stored somewhere off-site in addition to the local backup.
What are my options? Is there something you guys are using? Should I roll my own thing with rsync? And just to be clear, I want the functionality, I don't care about the stupid space animations of Time Machine.
Your home directory is probably full of dumping ground trash because users are the lowest of faggots.
I use Borg. There's an exclude file option and I use that to ignore a chunk of crap.
Benjamin Phillips
borg indeed
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Jack Martinez
Is just a worse rsync. Everything Apple does seems to be crap, glad I don't have to deal with it all the time. If for some reason rsync is not enough for your needs, take a look at borg.
Lucas Nguyen
I always just use rsync. Does borg do anything special?
Jonathan Turner
snapshots, dedup and encryption.
Zachary Morales
All of these can be done with less bloat by choosing an appropriate FS on the backup machine.
Ayden Hall
lol
Justin Cooper
Are you retarded? Something like ZFS (as bloated as it is, which is a lot) is better than your Python bloatware, especially since you need a FS anyway.
Tyler Myers
rdiff-backup. All other software I tried was just too shitty, the downside is rdiff-backup takes forever for large files.
Joseph James
Nigga what? A filesystem will not save you from disk failure. That's why you make snapshots and store them in different disks.
Colton Hall
ZFS can replicate the data on different disks.
Adrian Phillips
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Dominic Murphy
Choosing an exotic FS is going to bite you in the ass when you go to restore backups and find out that the tools for said FS have been discontinued and no longer work.
Thomas Davis
ZFS is a meme and RAID isn't a filesystem.
Zachary Clark
How about you give your hardware to someone that is not mentally handicapped
Bentley Adams
Build a server, install FreeNAS, create a ZFS volume, set up SMB and accounts, then configure on the end devices to auto backup using the credentials for the accounts you just made. Set and forget.
You don't rely on the array as backup, it's just an extra precaution Backup your RAIDs
Joseph Cox
no shit, sherlock
Brandon Martinez
If your collection of bootleg hentai is worth the investment for you, yes
Blake Bell
I'm trying to make an rsync script that backs up a directory full of other directories with files and sub directories to multiple external drives. Currently I have something like rsync -avP --delete-before --include "E*" --include "F*" --include "G*" --include "H*" --include "I*" --include "J*" --include "k*" --exclude "*" /mnt/source/ /mnt/backup/E-K/ But the include filters apply to all files and subdir, where I just want then to apply to /mnt/source/. Can this be done?
Tyler Campbell
Which brings us back to OP's question.
Brayden Martin
That's offline backup, which is a completely different question from OP's.
Thomas Gray
1) I don't want to think about your problem. 2) Use --dry-run and test a lot. 3) You might have to generate the --include option list dynamically (I doubt it, though).
Caleb Walker
I'm a normie-tier user so I just backup to a separate LUKS encrypted HDD every week or two. Not as good as a continual backup or an off-site but at least the HDD resides in a fire resistant safe. It's convenient to me and it's better than no backup.
