Joe Golden <j...@triangul.us> writes: > And for backups, Anthony mentioned Git Annex. Is that a backup solution or > something similar? In general I don't need incremental backups, but if > didn't cost much and made things faster, all the better. I love git and > think git should be in more places, and love the distributed idea.
I looked into git annex for work about a year ago. Seems crazy complex, written in an obscure language. I would absolutely not use it as a backup solution. I do backups via `tar --listed-incremental | gpg`. I have a backup script that has a list of enumerated directories I care the most about, that does: - "full" backups on the first Tuesday of the month - "weekly" incremental backups (against the last Monthly) every other Tuesday. - "daily" incremental backups (against the last Weekly) every other day. Daily backups below a certain size are scp'd off-site. On Tuesdays, I copy the new monthly or weekly incrementals to two external hard drives, as well as make copies of any new large/static media (mp3s, photos, video) to the same drives (photos are encrypted, mp3s are not; it's another `tar --listed-incremental` invocation). Both drives go in separate fire safes (and ideally one would go off-site for the rest of the week). At some point over winter I want to establish a proper NAS/services box that is not my desktop machine, and will look into doing backups via file system snapshotting (eg. btrfs or zfs send). -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/
