On 14/01/2021 11:06, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 14/01/2021 08:56, Chris Green wrote:
>> When you backup a 1TB drive do you actually copy the whole 1TB?  It's
>> a huge waste of time and space and you can't keep so many backups.
>> Use some form of incremental backup and also backup*selectively*.
>
> depends on what you want. I rsync huge amounts of data. Disk space is
> cheap. Recovering from data loss is not, Working out what is important
> and what is not is even more expensive.
>

One of the nice aspects of running apps/services in docker containers is
that it encourages you to define data volumes and hence to immediately
know what needs to be backed up.

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