<div><div dir="auto">I was going to suggest duplicity itself. I really don't know anything better outside of simply rsyncing everything. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 17:39 Jonathan Meek via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Thanks for the input guys! I ended going with deja-dup, which uses duplicitiy on the backend for the two systems. <br><br></div>I will let you all know how it goes when I do restore from it next week since we all know backups are useless if you can't restore from them. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Horkan Smith <span><<a href="mailto:ale@horkan.net" target="_blank">ale@horkan.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I've been satisfied w/ 'dirvish' - it's a set of scripts wrapped around the rsync --link-dest=DIR option - meaning that files that are identical between backups get hard-linked together. Dirvish handles the scheduling, naming conventions, cleanup, etc. <br>
That lets me maintain complete, restorable images in each backup tree, but only use the space for new or changed files. It takes more space than the rdiff approach because it'll store a whole new copy of a file even if only a byte changed, but it can be examined and restored using normal filesystem tools. It takes less space than a full copy, but isn't quite as safe.<br>
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I have 3 'server' or 'workstation' grade drives that I rotate through an external drive chassis at (sadly irregular) intervals for more physical copies.<br>
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later!<br>
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On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 07:13:57PM +0000, Jonathan Meek via Ale wrote:<br>
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Afternoon folks,<br>
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I have recently put together a Buffalo NAS device with 2TB of mirrored<br>
storage. I am looking for opinions for setting up my desktop/laptop systems<br>
to do backups to the NAS. They all run Solus Linux so no need to<br>
accommodate for the other OSes for now. In the future, I might try backing<br>
up phones and tablets but that's a ways off.<br>
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Also, thoughts on what to backup that may not be apparent on a Linux system<br>
would be great as well.<br>
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I vaguely recall someone suggesting using local mail to incidate if a<br>
backup succeeded or failed but I am open to options.<br>
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Regards,<br>
<br>
Jonathan<br>
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