Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

On Monday, August 15, 2022 12:44:11 AM CEST Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > With my new fiber internet, my poor disks are getting a work out, and > also filling up. First casualty, my backup disk. I have one directory > that is . . . well . . . huge. It's about 7TBs or so. This is where it > is right

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

On 15/8/22 06:44, Dale wrote: Howdy, With my new fiber internet, my poor disks are getting a work out, and also filling up.  First casualty, my backup disk.  I have one directory that is . . . well . . . huge.  It's about 7TBs or so.  This is where it is right now and it's still trying to pack

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

On 15/08/2022 00:20, Dale wrote: Right now, my backups are external hard drives.  I have a 3TB, a 6TB and a 8TB that sadly is SMR.  They are encrypted and after I do my backup updates, they go in a fire safe.  I tend to do updates once a week, usually while I'm doing OS updates. That NAS idea

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

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 g

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 3:44 PM Dale > wrote: > > > > > > > Thoughts?  Ideas? > > > > Dale > > > > :-)  :-) > > Do you happen to have an old computer laying around? If so check  > out TrueNAS Core. > > You'd need one small OS drive and 2 backu

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 6:44 PM Dale wrote: > > I plan to buy another hard drive pretty soon. Next month is possible. > If there is nothing available that does what I want, is there a way to > use rsync and have it set to backup files starting with "a" through "k" > to one spot and then backup "l

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 6:44 PM Dale wrote: > > Right now, I'm using rsync which doesn't compress files but does just > update things that have changed. I'd like to find some way, software > but maybe there is already a tool I'm unaware of, to compress data and > work a lot like rsync otherwise.

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 3:44 PM Dale wrote: > > > Thoughts? Ideas? > > Dale > > :-) :-) Do you happen to have an old computer laying around? If so check out TrueNAS Core. You'd need one small OS drive and 2 backup drives - your current 7TB and one more to build the recommended RAID. It compre

[gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

Howdy, With my new fiber internet, my poor disks are getting a work out, and also filling up.  First casualty, my backup disk.  I have one directory that is . . . well . . . huge.  It's about 7TBs or so.  This is where it is right now and it's still trying to pack in files.  /dev/mapper/8tb