On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 17:57:22 +1300, paul lee wrote:

> No... I mean on my BBS box, I do backup all /files and... it's literally
> 500GB or so. But of course, for my Linux I'm just backing up /home and a
> few other spots where I hold my personal files. I also use a package
> that takes a 'snapshot' or basically a LISTING of every installed
> package on the system.
>
What OS do you use on the BBS box?

> But, still, I'm backing up enough that speeds matter.
> I mean... don't speeds kinda always matter, anyway?
>
Have you tried rsync and/or rsnapshot?

I used to back up my house server using tar with the compress (gzip)
option and a relatively small group of files/directories skipped such as
/tmp - that took 3.5 hours a night, backing up to a USB hard drive. Now
I'm using rsnapshot to keep 7 daily backups plus another 4 weeklies and
the typical backup time has dropped to 8 minutes for the daily run and 9
minutes for the weekly one.


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