Am Freitag, 11. Mai 2018, 14:16:20 CEST schrieb jdd@dodin.org:
[...] I also have a very cheap unused online server with 2Tb data, to be related with the 500Gb size of my main disk.
So, do you have ssh access and are you able to install packages there?
So I want to use this server as backup. For example an hourly backup, somewhat incremental, where I could find a copy of whatever file I may have deleted since the last real backup/archive.
I'm using storeBackup and maintaining its openSUSE package: https://software.opensuse.org/package/storeBackup It's a disk-to-disk backup tool. It creates a new directory for each backup that includes all previous unchanged files by using hard links and, thus, saving space (deduplication) : http://www.nongnu.org/storebackup/en/node16.html rsnapshot does the same but cannot split very big files (like VMs) into small blocks so that there will be no deduplication. Furthermore, storeBackup can move the actual work of creating hard links to the remote server if there is storeBackup installed, too. This speeds ups backups by a factor of 10 to 75 when using sshfs: http://www.nongnu.org/storebackup/en/node85.html#myfaqSSH
what may be the rsync syntax to a cron job to backup root and /home like this? rsync or any other simple tool. date can be limited to, say, three month in the past, and all what is older removed if no more present
storeBackup supports sophisticated deletion strategies, especially if you do backups on a irregular basis: http://www.nongnu.org/storebackup/en/node50.html Gruß Jan -- You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org