Greetings Josh and Joe,
While I agree with Josh that tar has a major place in the backup world,
as you are the aficionado of ssh, running rsync over ssh is a wonderful
way to backup entire directories or entire systems.
Rsync was written by Andrew Tridgell, as his PHD thesis. BTW he also
write SAMBA.
Regards,
Paul
On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, Josh Sled wrote:
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 08:48:22 -0400
From: Josh Sled <js...@asynchronous.org>
Reply-To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <VAGUE@list.uvm.edu>
To: VAGUE@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: Backups and File Encryption
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
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