by BoppreH on 8/19/2023, 8:33:13 AM
by otterpro on 8/19/2023, 1:01:09 PM
Wow, I like this a lot, as it looks easy to run and it can sync to multiple targets. My local backup consists of JBOD (not RAID, ZFS or BTRFS) so I think this should work nicely. I've been using a shell script for doing something similar for backup, but it lacked a lot of the features.
by killingtime74 on 8/19/2023, 2:23:40 AM
It might be safer to use an rsync lib that calls librsync or at least wraps the calls for you. I'm always suspicious of sub-shelling
by gizmo on 8/19/2023, 10:03:57 AM
How does it deal with interrupted backups?
Can it automatically prune backups older than N days?
I don’t see anything about encryption.
by pmontra on 8/19/2023, 6:47:10 AM
Why not rsnapshot? I've been using it to backup servers to servers for a lot years.
by BigBalli on 8/19/2023, 2:59:52 AM
how is it better/safer than manually using rsync?
by sureglymop on 8/19/2023, 6:31:07 AM
Have a look at restic for a good alternative to this.
How do you automate the checking if the backup worked correctly, in face of saf bugs, rsync bugs/misconfiguration, or bit rot?
My solution is to pick a few random files (plus whatever is new), and compute their hashes on both local and remote versions. But it's slow and probabilistic. ZFS also helps, but I feel it's too transparent to rely on (what if the remote storage changes filesystem).