Konstantin Nebel wrote: >> Anyway from my experience borg is the best and I can recommend it wormly. > > I appreciate you answering in the fullest how you do backups and I used > borg in the past which I can recommend as well. But I really want to focus > on how to trigger the backup in an automated way and not in which tool is > recommended to use. >
I think it is not only me that misunderstood the point of the question. >> My use case is quite opposite. I shut down the backup server as I do only >> weekly and monthly backups. > > I assume u trigger them manually then? I would like to do them > automatically and hopefully forget about them that they exist and do the > occasional check if they work or not :) Yes, on my list is still to find a way to trigger one single backup in a time window when the backup server is available. I want to also explore the snapshot function of LVM. This is my use case. In any case a backup is time consuming process and what many suggest is to sync the content you are interested in permanently to a local machine and then do your regular backup from there. This would mean you use something like inotify and sync the files to the PI4 and have a cronjob that does the backup at some point of time from the local directory. To me it looks very clean and simple. https://linuxhint.com/inotofy-rsync-bash-live-backups/ there are couple of other articles regards
