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>>989271 (OP)

Your home directory is probably full of dumping ground trash because users are the lowest of faggots.

I use Borg. There's an exclude file option and I use that to ignore a chunk of crap.

>>989271 (OP)

>>989273

>deduplication, encryption, automation

borg indeed

/thread

>Time Machine

Is just a worse rsync. Everything Apple does seems to be crap, glad I don't have to deal with it all the time.

If for some reason rsync is not enough for your needs, take a look at borg.

>borg

I always just use rsync. Does borg do anything special?

>>989322

snapshots, dedup and encryption.

>>989339

All of these can be done with less bloat by choosing an appropriate FS on the backup machine.

>>989352

>less bloat

>entire FS

lol

>>989359

Are you retarded? Something like ZFS (as bloated as it is, which is a lot) is better than your Python bloatware, especially since you need a FS anyway.

rdiff-backup. All other software I tried was just too shitty, the downside is rdiff-backup takes forever for large files.

>>989352

Nigga what? A filesystem will not save you from disk failure. That's why you make snapshots and store them in different disks.

>>989379

ZFS can replicate the data on different disks.

>>989379

>What is RAID

>>989352

Choosing an exotic FS is going to bite you in the ass when you go to restore backups and find out that the tools for said FS have been discontinued and no longer work.

>>989380

>>989381

ZFS is a meme and RAID isn't a filesystem.

>>989384

>RAIDZ is not part of ZFS

>and ZFS is bad because I don't understand

How about you give your hardware to someone that is not mentally handicapped

>>989273

>exclude file option

so like .gitignore then?

>>989271 (OP)

>How does /tech/ back up their Chinese girl cartoons

bittorrent

>>989271 (OP)

rsync or tar.

or dump and restore ;^)

>>989384

>ZFS is a meme

this.

>>989379

Did you read the post I replied to?

>snapshots, dedup and encryption.

Didn't mention backup, you're supposed to ZFS or btrfs on the backup machine.

>>989396

at least this guy is funny

>>989381

>use RAID

>PSU explodes

>takes out every hard drive

ok

>>989466

>PSU explodes

What chink shit are you buying?

>>989275

>>989273

Thanks, I'll give Bork a look.

>>989372

I'll keep this one in the back of my mind if Borg doesn't do the trick.

>>989532

You don't rely on the array as backup, it's just an extra precaution

Backup your RAIDs

>>989534

no shit, sherlock

>>989534

If your collection of bootleg hentai is worth the investment for you, yes

I'm trying to make an rsync script that backs up a directory full of other directories with files and sub directories to multiple external drives. Currently I have something like

 rsync -avP --delete-before --include "E*" --include "F*" --include "G*"  --include "H*" --include "I*" --include "J*" --include "k*" --exclude "*" /mnt/source/ /mnt/backup/E-K/

>>989534

>Backup your RAIDs

Which brings us back to OP's question.

>>989906

That's offline backup, which is a completely different question from OP's.

>>989724

1) I don't want to think about your problem.

2) Use --dry-run and test a lot.

3) You might have to generate the --include option list dynamically (I doubt it, though).

I'm a normie-tier user so I just backup to a separate LUKS encrypted HDD every week or two. Not as good as a continual backup or an off-site but at least the HDD resides in a fire resistant safe. It's convenient to me and it's better than no backup.

#!/bin/bash

DRYRUN=--dry-run
if [ "${1}" = "--really" ]; then
        dialog --yesno "Run for real?" 0 0 || exit
        unset DRYRUN
else
        echo DRY RUN
fi

cat <<EOL |
+ .config/***
+ .emacs
+ .emacs.d/***
+ .local/***
+ .mozilla/***
+ .ssh/***
- .vim/undo/
+ .vim/***
+ .vimrc
+ .xinitrc
+ .zshrc
+ bin/***
+ Documents/***
+ Music/***
+ Pictures/***
+ Videos/***
+ src/***
- *
EOL

rsync -avP ${DRYRUN} --delete-excluded --one-file-system --include-from=- ${HOME}/ ./active-backup/

No one has mentioned dar in this whole thread?

>Sorry, it arrived, your old disk has crashed. OK, you are happy because you have now a good argument to buy the very fast and very enormous very lastest hard disk available. Usually, you also cry because you have lost data and you will have to reinstall all your system, that was working so well and for so long!

>>989271 (OP)

>>989426

What this guy said. Upload it, sharing is caring.

Rsync and zfs if you have the space to waste with slightly inferior compression

tar and 7z if you want maximum compression but sacrifice stability

pipe viewer

>>989271 (OP)

rsync obviously