If your looking for a nice professional differential backup system without the complication try Deja-Dup <https://launchpad.net/deja-dup>. It is Duplicity in it's back-end but makes it easy for even grandma to have a enterprise grade backup.
My personal setup is to use Deja-Dup to backup my home some some directories in /etc/ to a local 7200RPM hard disk daily and then weekly i copy the data in my hard drive to an offsite storage server. At work i jsut backup straight to my company's file share server. You can encrypt it so it's pretty safe to put wherever. It backs up in 26MB TAR Volume format with the option of feeding them through Gnu Privacy Guard. normally i would get worried about encrypting backups due to that fact that if 1 byte gets flipped the whole archive is gone. with 26MB volumes there's plenty of room for corruption without total data loss. If you need more advanced options you can always script Duplicity yourself. P.S. If you want the "Restore Previous Version" function of Deja-Dup on Thunar File Manager you can integrate it with This <https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/tutorials/deja-dup-how-to-restore-files-folders-in-thunar/> guide. On 03/12/2017 06:05 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Sat, 11 Mar 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> I've vague ideas of what backup pattern(s) I might follow. I'm >> looking for reading materials that might trigger "I hadn't thought >> of that" moments. > It's perhaps broader than you need, but I cannot say enough good > things about "The Practice of System and Network Administration" by > Limoncelli, Hogan, et al: > > http://the-sysadmin-book.com > > I have the first edition, and it's quite well worn. > > Like I said, it's probably not aimed at your needs, but I'll plug it > anyway. :-) > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
