Can you please share your backup strategies for linux? I’m curious to know what tools you use and why?How do you automate/schedule backups? Which files/folders you back up? What is your prefered hardware/cloud storage and how do you manage storage space?

  • lud@lemm.ee
    2·
    1 day ago

    Do you also backup the files externally? If not you shouldn’t consider them backed up.

    • fireshellEnglish
      1·
      16 hours ago

      I do it externally with this script

      #!/bin/bash
# Sample file backup-documents.sh
cd ${HOME}/documents
tar -cJpf /run/media/fireshell/EAGET/mybackups/documents-$(date '+%Y-%m-%d').tar.xz .
sync

      #!/bin/bash
# Sample file restore-documents.sh
backup_dir="/run/media/fireshell/EAGET/mybackups/"
mkdir -p ~/documents
last_documents="$(ls -1t ${backup_dir}/documents-*.tar.xz | head -n1)"
cd ~/documents && \
  tar -xpf ${last_documents}