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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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How do you backup? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I recently implemented a backup workflow for me. I heavily use restic for desktop backup and for a full system backup of my local server. It works amazingly good. I always have a versioned backup without a lot of redundant data. It is fast, encrypted and compressed.

But I wondered, how do you guys do your backups? What software do you use? How often do you do them and what workflow do you use for it?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

only drawback is that it doesn't create differential backups

This is a big drawback because even if you don't need to keep old versions of files, you could be replicating silent disk corruption to your backup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 46 minutes ago) (1 children)

It’s not a drawback because rsync has supported incremental versioned backups for over a decade, you just have to use the --link-dest flag and add a couple lines of code around it for management.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 minutes ago

Sure, but that's not in their answer.