Deja-Dup "markets" itself to my mindset and the links at its site covers the type of references I was trying to ask for.
On 03/12/2017 11:22 PM, Thomas Groman wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
