On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 6:47 AM Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My current backup tool is BorgBackup, which does compression and > deduplication but took some effort to set up correctly, though it's > working now. Borg is awesome.[1] Any backup you use is better than none. So I'm not going to suggest a substitution. Instead, I suggest if you're thinking of alternatives, keep the one you know in place while becoming familiar with the alternative. i.e. two backups are better than one! Many eggs in many baskets! >However it seems that Btrfs can do both these things, so > is there a case to be made for just setting it up that way, and using > send and receive for the actual copying instead of Borg? It would have > the advantage of making the backed-up files a little more accessible > without special tools. It's true. I use a variation on this article's approach: https://fedoramagazine.org/btrfs-snapshots-backup-incremental/ I can elaborate on that upon request, but probably start a new thread. I haven't done so myself, but you could checkout btrbk [1] I just came across Pika Backup which is a simplified front end for Borg. Anyone not doing backups should take a peek at Pika. It doesn't offer scheduled backups yet but can do either local or remote backups. Enormous amounts of freedom and anxiety go away if you have good backups. It's so stress reducing that I'm 100% certain that people with backups are less prone to panic induced data loss. And I've seen a lot of panic induced data loss: people freak out so badly it's like bull in China shop, and just cause more damage than if they'd just tiptoed out, and only as questions without doing *anything* until understanding the problem first. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
