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Can you please share your backup strategies for linux? I'm curious to know what tools you use and why?How do you automate/schedule backups? Which files/folders you back up? What is your prefered hardware/cloud storage and how do you manage storage space?

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[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 2 months ago

I plug in an external drive every so often and drag and drop parts of my home dir into it like it's 1997. I'm not running a data center here. The boomer method is good enough and I don't do anything important enough to warrant going all out with professional snapshot based backup solutions and stuff. And I only save personal documents, media, and custom config files. Everything else is replaceable.

[-] Frederic@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago

yeah about the same, old coot here, I plug a USB3-SSD (encrypted with LUKS) and rsync from internal HD to this external HD. That's it.

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 months ago

I do exactly this but with a little shell script that just has some rsync -av and mv -f calls instead of dragging and dropping.

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