Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

[Dale]

Mark Knecht wrote:
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> On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 3:44 PM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com
> <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>> wrote:
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> <SNIP>
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> > Thoughts?  Ideas?
> >
> > Dale
> >
> > :-)  :-)
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> Do you happen to have an old computer laying around? If so check 
> out TrueNAS Core.
>
> You'd need one small OS drive and 2 backup drives - your current 
> 7TB and one more to build the recommended RAID. It compresses, 
> saves older revs of files if possible with snapshots. Is supports
> NFS mounts for media/etc, chroot jails and lots of other stuff.
>
> The default version has been FreeBSD based so I had some 
> learning to do but I think there's now a Linux version.
>
> It appears that possibly you have your backup drive in your
> computer so it moves backups to a separate machine which
> you can locate remotely so you're probably safer in terms of
> a fire or some other catastrophic event.
>
> If this appeals and you have the hardware you can build 
> a box and mess with it but it certainly does the minimal 
> number of things you are asking for.
>
> HTH,
> Mark


That may be a option later.  I'm actually considering build a NAS but
right now, costs are preventing that.  I almost have enough that I could
build another computer.  I have a mobo, memory, CPU and such.  I think I
only need a power supply and maybe a video card.  Could use a case for
it to but could mount it on a wall somewhere.  Good air flow.  lol 

Right now, my backups are external hard drives.  I have a 3TB, a 6TB and
a 8TB that sadly is SMR.  They are encrypted and after I do my backup
updates, they go in a fire safe.  I tend to do updates once a week,
usually while I'm doing OS updates. 

At the moment, I'm hoping to find some method that compresses to pack in
more data.  Given this faster fiber internet, I see a lot of data coming
my way. 

By the way, using Surfshark as VPN.  I finally figured out how to use
openvpn.  Then I figured out how to use it as a service.  Working pretty
well.  Still working on router end and figuring out how to get email to
work.  Most VPNs block email.  I'll get around to it one of these days. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

P. S.  Funny story.  I was doing my updates yesterday.  Usually, I do
them in a chroot and then emerge the binaries on main system.  It had a
pretty good bit to download and usually it takes at least a hour,
sometimes 3 or more, to download.  I started it and went to kitchen.  I
came back and noticed the network was idle.  I thought the emerge had
failed and stopped.  I looked, it was compiling away.  Then I checked
the emerge-fetch.log to see if there was some error there.  I was
confused for a minute.  Then it hit me, fast internet.  In the couple
minutes I was in the kitchen, it downloaded everything and was done. 
ROFL  Not only was it done, it had been done for a while.  By the time I
figured it out, it was already off the chart in gkrellm. 

This new fiber thing is going to take some getting used too.  ;-)