Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:44:16 -0500 From: Brandon J. Wandersee <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com> To: jungle Boogie <jungleboogie0@gmail.com> Cc: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rsync or git backups? Message-ID: <86d1ngkb3z.fsf@WorkBox.Home> In-Reply-To: <CAKE2PDs6eey-Cp0ZCai=Sbd13aOXx=44RTKafos0K4p34MutxQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAKoxK%2B4MuSFi7ctcAXVzZ61mXzCsnP-qsWxEOTor_T1SFgc-cg@mail.gmail.com> <CAKE2PDs6eey-Cp0ZCai=Sbd13aOXx=44RTKafos0K4p34MutxQ@mail.gmail.com>
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jungle Boogie writes: > On 1 June 2016 at 01:35, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> wrote: >> >> Any suggestion? > > > Obviously the first choice is zfs snapshots but if you're like me, > that's not a choice. > > I'd recommend something like borg backup: > https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/ > http://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ > > It's a python written app that will dedup your data so there's a > chance it can compress and dedup your large datasets very nicely. > > The maintainer is very active with keeping it current and 1.0.3 is > available in ports/pkg: > http://www.freshports.org/archivers/py-borgbackup/ > > As you will see in the documentation, you can make a script and call > it with cron however often/irregular you would like and have it also > prune. > > I think it's worth trying out for your use case. I'd like to add my thanks to this thread. I didn't know about Borg, but after a week of using it I have to say I'm very impressed. It should be noted that Borg currently only builds from ports on systems that have Python 3 set as the default (which is not the default on a vanilla FreeBSD install), so there is no package avaiable for it (the official Poudriere build server just ignores it). If you're running a 64-bit system and don't want to mess around with potentially rebuilding a bunch of ports with non-default settings, you can download a pre-built binary for it from the project's GitHub page: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases -- :: Brandon J. Wandersee :: brandon.wandersee@gmail.com :: -------------------------------------------------- :: 'The best design is as little design as possible.' :: --- Dieter Rams ----------------------------------
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