Linux @lemmy.ml mFat @lemdro.id 1 mo. ago

What is your linux backup strategy?

Can you please share your backup strategies for linux? I'm curious to know what tools you use and why?How do you automate/schedule backups? Which files/folders you back up? What is your prefered hardware/cloud storage and how do you manage storage space?

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I use Borg Backup, automated with a bash script that Borg provides. A cron job runs the script at the desired frequency. I keep backups on different computers, ideally I would recommend one copy in the cloud and one copy on a local machine. Borg compresses and encrypts its backups.

Edit: I migrated a server once using the backups from this system and it worked great.
- Same.
  
  I use Bortmatic to manage my repos and I pay a little bit to BorgBase for offsite backup of my important stuff.
- I should really cron my Borg script rather than waiting for a sinking anxiety to set it and doing backups at random intetvals
  
  Make sure to check if it actually ran from the cron job, cron is a finnicky tool

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