Good people one and all,
May I first thank all developers and contributors to Yunohost, and all you forum members. You are great. Merry Christmas/Kwanzaa/etc. and joyeux noël to you all.
This is not a complaint or call for help. I’d simply like to hear how you do local backups. My scenario is as follows: I have an old PC running Yunohost (baremetal), and a USB harddisk that I want to backup to. Previously, I used Borg to do this automatically. However, as I had a server crash not long ago, I discovered that Borg backups don’t neccessarily restore without problems. I can get data out of a Borg backup, but not so easily configuration (no worries, I was able to restore with a bit of trouble and toil).
So, to avoid similar restoration trouble again, I don’t think I’ll use Borg again. But then what? I would like to
- automatically back up locally daily, and sometimes to a remote server
- back up data and config/databases, with the aim to restore a server quickly and easily in case of hard drive failure
- have unencrypted backups
- have some kind of deduplication backup, so I don’t spend vastly more space than the data I have
What would you do in such a case? I am of course in the process of investigating Restic and Archivist and even rsync, but I haven’t decided. It hangs on item 2 in the list. Thanks for any input!