On Monday, August 15, 2022 9:52:26 AM CEST Dale wrote: > Julien Roy wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On 8/14/22 18:44, Dale wrote: > >> Thoughts? Ideas? > > > > You might be interested in borgbackup [1] > > It takes delta backups and has de-duplication and compression to save > > some space. It supports encryption too. > > It's packaged in ::gentoo and you run it on whatever machine you want > > to backup and give it its destination, it can be local or on a remote > > machine. > > > > I've been using it for a while and it works well. I have it configured > > on a crontab and it backups my files every night > > > > [1] https://www.borgbackup.org/ > > Since my drives are external, I do my backups manually. Well, I start > it when the drives are connected and ready. I think borgbackup was one > I looked into and it sounded more like a online backup where you store > the data on a server somewhere. I may be wrong on that tho. I looked > at several and it got confusing after a bit. Plus, some were still as > clear as mud. Why do people link to a place that doesn't tell what > their software does and how anyway. It seems most think github and such > are good places to link to when it really doesn't tell you anything > unless you want to help develop the software or something. It would be > like Ford linking to CAD models to sell cars. :/ > > To all: I found a good deal on a 10TB drive. That should suffice for > now. I might add, it will give me time to figure out a path forward and > I can make other use of that SMR drive. One thing I thought of as a > negative for a NAS, I can't lock it into my safe, unless it is really > tiny. As it is, even if a fire comes along, I still got backups.
I looked into this as well. A safe works like a nice little oven and the temperature inside the safe can go really high if it's inside a fire. Not all storage system (HDDs included) are reliable when the temperatures go to these extremes. Make sure the safe is, apart from resistent to fire, also capable of keeping the heat outside. -- Joost
