Re: slightly OT - backup strategy

2022-08-03 Thread Efraim Flashner
Coming in late: I keep a bunch of that stuff in git-annex. I can then use git-annex to sync the data around to my different machines, and I use a couple of S3 compatible places online to keep an offsite location for the files synced with git-annex. One collection for my Music files, one for

Re: slightly OT - backup strategy

2022-07-20 Thread Mark E. Fuller
20 Jul 2022 13:15:13 Rabin Yasharzadehe : > Using ZFS with sanoid[https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid] > > ZFS will give you all the benefits of COW filesystem, compression, and > snapshots (and much more), > combined with sanoid utility will allow you to automate the snapshots and > send

Re: slightly OT - backup strategy

2022-07-20 Thread Rabin Yasharzadehe
Using ZFS with sanoid ZFS will give you all the benefits of COW filesystem, compression, and snapshots (and much more), combined with sanoid utility will allow you to automate the snapshots and send them to a remote system, and because ZFS is block-level

Re: slightly OT - backup strategy

2022-07-18 Thread Dan Yasny
On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 10:15 AM Dotan Shavit wrote: > Consider raid + zfs + daily snapshoots > > RAID/ZFS/replication are NOT backups. This is a common problem that needs explaining every time :) https://www.raidisnotabackup.com/ > בתאריך יום א׳, 17 ביולי 2022, 16:50, מאת Shlomo Solomon ‏<

Re: slightly OT - backup strategy

2022-07-18 Thread Dan Yasny
Inline On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 9:50 AM Shlomo Solomon wrote: > I recently lost some files because of a bad disk - hardware problem. > > I do regular backups so I was not really worried, but I now see that I > have a problem with my backup strategy so I'd like to know how others > handle/prevent

Re: slightly OT - backup strategy

2022-07-17 Thread Dotan Shavit
Consider raid + zfs + daily snapshoots בתאריך יום א׳, 17 ביולי 2022, 16:50, מאת Shlomo Solomon ‏< shlomo.solo...@gmail.com>: > I recently lost some files because of a bad disk - hardware problem. > > I do regular backups so I was not really worried, but I now see that I > have a problem with my

slightly OT - backup strategy

2022-07-17 Thread Shlomo Solomon
I recently lost some files because of a bad disk - hardware problem. I do regular backups so I was not really worried, but I now see that I have a problem with my backup strategy so I'd like to know how others handle/prevent what happened to me. I backup files using rsync and I basically have 2