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Julien Roy wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> On 8/14/22 18:44, Dale wrote: |
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>> Thoughts? Ideas? |
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> You might be interested in borgbackup [1] |
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> It takes delta backups and has de-duplication and compression to save |
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> some space. It supports encryption too. |
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> It's packaged in ::gentoo and you run it on whatever machine you want |
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> to backup and give it its destination, it can be local or on a remote |
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> machine. |
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> I've been using it for a while and it works well. I have it configured |
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> on a crontab and it backups my files every night |
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> [1] https://www.borgbackup.org/ |
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Since my drives are external, I do my backups manually. Well, I start |
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it when the drives are connected and ready. I think borgbackup was one |
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I looked into and it sounded more like a online backup where you store |
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the data on a server somewhere. I may be wrong on that tho. I looked |
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at several and it got confusing after a bit. Plus, some were still as |
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clear as mud. Why do people link to a place that doesn't tell what |
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their software does and how anyway. It seems most think github and such |
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are good places to link to when it really doesn't tell you anything |
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unless you want to help develop the software or something. It would be |
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like Ford linking to CAD models to sell cars. :/ |
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To all: I found a good deal on a 10TB drive. That should suffice for |
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now. I might add, it will give me time to figure out a path forward and |
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I can make other use of that SMR drive. One thing I thought of as a |
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negative for a NAS, I can't lock it into my safe, unless it is really |
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tiny. As it is, even if a fire comes along, I still got backups. With |
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a NAS, I could lose everything, puter, backups and all. Given I back up |
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around 12 to 13TBs of data, it could get pricey uploading somewhere. |
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I just hope this 10TB drive isn't a SMR. I googled around and the best |
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I could find is anything above 8TB is CMR. It's a WD101EDBZ-11B1DA0. I |
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hope that is right. I'm not totally opposed to SMR even as a backup but |
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I'd rather not. The deal I found was for a pull and costs about $110 |
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including shipping. I looked at a 14TB but my jaw dropped. $$$$$$$$ |
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I need to look into the LVM snapshot thing some more. I keep forgetting |
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that option and I use LVM a LOT here. Maybe I will find something |
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between now and filling up that 10TB drive. ROFL |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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