Appreciated. Fixed.It might be worth making the topic title more specific here. I can imagine users with backup on a home computer taking a look at the topic and thinking "this is server stuff: I don't know anything about this" and users with experience running a backup server looking at the title and thinking "that'll be somebody wanting to backup a home computer" and not bothering to read the topic.
Advice on setting up a backup server?
Best software for a backup server?
I've given you a bump anyway. I hope you get some answers.
I honestly didn't know that Rsync worked over a network that easily. I did find a list similar to the one that you created, but like with so many other open source things, it's hard for someone not skilled in the art to sort through it to find the good within the fine and unmaintained. I was kind of thinking along the lines of Borg, for example. I might just do Rsync though since it's familiar.Rsync works just fine over a network, that's it's intended purpose.copy those folders onto an eSata drive doing rsync, mounted to /mnt/backup.
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Now what I'm wondering is what's the next best step, since Backup is separate from Server.
If you want more features than plain rsync, there's rsnapshot, bacula, amanda, backuppc, borgbackup, burp, and many others a simple web search will reveal.
Personally, I use server-initiated rsync over ssh with a custom script and ZFS snapshots for versioning. That's just me though, you'll need to do some reading to figure out what suits you.
Love your script - thanks! I do like front ends. It looks like Deja-Dup only works from a local x-server though? I'd like both systems to stay headless.All of that data seems relatively unchanging. As such I'd suggest a simple rsync on a schedule would be quite sufficient. How often really depends on how much is added to it on a regular basis. You can do it via a systemd service or cron, either way.
In the case of the docker data I personally like duplicity and am quite pleased with it. You can use deja-dup as a front end for restores if needed. Makes it a bit easier to be able to visualize it. Instead of backing up the entire docker volume though you might be better off backing up the critical bits. In my case for both my mariadb and mythtv backend dockers I run a single script to dump the entire db structure to a file once a day. The script only keeps the latest 4 or 5 days as my needs aren't critical.
Script for reference - https://gitlab.com/jmgibson1981/homescr ... type=heads
( I haven't tested the restore function really. I've done it manually just because I like to ).
Ultimately every situation is different. One person's backup strategy is another person's nightmare. Only you can decide how intense you want to go. In some cases stuff like this will help. For other's it can probably be major overkill.
Generally to all: Any reviews on UrBackup vs Borg? Both look kind of like what I was aiming for.
Thanks all - As always, much appreciated.
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