On 2024-01-30, Michael <confabul...@kintzios.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:15:09 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: >> I need to set up some sort of automated backup on a couple Gentoo >> machines (typical desktop software development and home use). One of >> them used rsnapshot in the past but the crontab entries that drove >> that have vanished :/
The crontabs had not dissappeared, I was looking on the wrong computer. Too many terminal windows open... > You have probably seen the backup packages suggested in this wiki page? Yep. Rsnapshot is one of them, and it's what I chose quite a few years ago. > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Backup > > and what's available in the tree: > > https://packages.gentoo.org/categories/app-backup I'll look through the package database and visit some of the home pages. > You may also want to consider integral filesystem solutions like btrfs and > zfs, depending on your needs and how often your data change, as well as > related scripts; e.g.: I don't think I'm ready to switch from ext4.
