On Sun, 2022-08-14 at 17:08 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: > I just thought I would ask for opinions on backups that people > use. > I have thought about the old fashioned dump/restore; IDK if that > would > be good for modern use or not. My system isn't really that big. My > allotted size is 30 Gig, and it's not full. There's dar and xar and > fsarchiver. There's backing up with btrfs too. > > I am thinking about back ups of the whole system and rpms I have > installed. And maybe not backing up logs, old settings like are > stored > in the root directory of the user(s) and root account. > > Does anyone use any of these or other backups? I just want to > save > my rpms and not have to download all from scratch. IDK if dar or dump > would backup things like /sys or other system directories. I have > created dump backups but not really restored from scratch. I used to use rsnapshot, which is basically a front-end to rsync, and it worked pretty well. Nowadays I use BorgBackup because it does compression and de-duplication. My backup device is a pair of old HDDs mounted on a USB3 dock and formatted as a BTRFS filesystem with Raid-1. poc _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue