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Best backup for Linux? (feddit.dk)

submitted 1 year ago by privsecfoss@feddit.dk to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I am using duplicati and thinking of switching to Borg. What do you use and why?

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[–] karce@wizanons.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I use btrfs snapshots and btrbk

btrfs is a great filesystem and btrbk complements it easily. Switching between snapshots is also really easy if something goes wrong and you need to restore.

Archwiki docs for btrfs: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs#Incremental_backup_to_external_drive

Of course you'd still want a remote location to backup to. You can use an encrypted volume with cloud storage. So google drive, etc all work.

[–] brandhout@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

This is the way !

[–] CoffeeBot@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Oh interesting! I might take a look at btrbk

[–] privsecfoss@feddit.dk 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks. Heard a lot about it. Will check it.

[–] kamin@lemmy.kghorvath.com 2 points 1 year ago

This is what I do. Btrfs snapshots and use send/receive with my NAS.