On Monday, August 15, 2022 12:44:11 AM CEST Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> With my new fiber internet, my poor disks are getting a work out, and
> also filling up. First casualty, my backup disk. I have one directory
> that is . . . well . . . huge. It's about 7TBs or so. This is where it
> is right now and it's still trying to pack in files.
>
> /dev/mapper/8tb 7.3T 7.1T 201G 98% /mnt/8tb
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> Thoughts? Ideas?
Plenty, see below:
For backups to external disks, I would recommend having a look at "dar" :
$ eix -e dar
* app-backup/dar
Available versions: 2.7.6^t ~2.7.7^t {argon2 curl dar32 dar64 doc gcrypt
gpg lz4 lzo nls rsync threads xattr}
Homepage: http://dar.linux.free.fr/
Description: A full featured backup tool, aimed for disks
It's been around for a while and the developer is active and responds quite
well to questions.
It supports compression (different compression methods), incremental backups
(only need a catalogue of the previous backup for the incremental) and
encryption.
The NAS options others mentioned would also work as they can compress data on
disk and you'd only notice a delay in writing/reading (depending on the
compression method used). I would recommend using one that uses ZFS on-disk as
it's more reliable and robust then BTRFS.
One option that comes available for you now that you are no longer limited to
slow ADSL: Cloud backups.
I use Backblaze (B2) to store compressed backups that haven't been stored on
tape to off-site locations.
But, you can also encrypt the backups locally and store the
encrypted+compressed backupfiles on other cloud storage.
--
Joost
