I’m trying to find a good method of making periodic, incremental backups. I assume that the most minimal approach would be to have a Cronjob run rsync periodically, but I’m curious what other solutions may exist.

I’m interested in both command-line, and GUI solutions.

  • akash_rawal@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I use rsync+btrfs snapshot solution.

    1. Use rsync to incrementally collect all data into a btrfs subvolume
    2. Deduplicate using duperemove
    3. Create a read-only snapshot of the subvolume

    I don’t have a backup server, just an external drive that I only connect during backup.

    Deduplication is mediocre, I am still looking for snapshot aware duperemove replacement.

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I’m not trying to start a flame war, but I’m genuinely curious. Why do people like btrfs over zfs? Btrfs seems very much so “not ready for prime time”.

      • EddyBot@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        btrfs is included in the linux kernel, zfs is not on most distros
        the tiny chance that an externel kernel module borking with a kernel upgrade happens sometimes and is probably scary enough for a lot of people