I’m in the middle of upgrading our backup setups at work. Right now I have several machines using urbackup. The server software is on a virtual machine and the actual location for the backup files is on a nas. I am backing up the VM regularly and the NAS is a mirrored raid so the odds of losing thos…

I’ve been looking into this too, specifically in order to make a copy of the backup directory in cloud storage. Cloud storage typically doesn’t support symbolic links, but I found that rclone has a –links flag that converts symbolic links into and back again from a special .rclonelink file that con…

macom August 5, 2022, 3:23pm 3

How to mirror a backup? general discussion

I wonder how to do mirroring of backups and things. I am using a partition formatted with btrfs as a backup destination, on a disk connected to a raspberry PI. Now I would like to have a copy of it (to another disk), what I store in another place, for safety, so it would be not a permanent mirror, just connecting it once a week to copy the new diffs. What do you recommend for this? I was thinking of a RAID1, using btrfs’s raiding features, but then I dropped the idea: it would be quite tiresome …

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