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Backups Aren't Simple

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  1. PunchyHamster · · focus · HN ↗
    So is apparently making readable site.

    Software like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;restic.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;restic.net&#x2F; does a good job. Few choices of backend

    Accepts stuff from pipe too so you can just pipe mysqldump or pg_dumpall without intermediate files

    Very decent options for checking repo integrity, personally (well, at work too, we use it on few hundred user machines and servers) I also added &quot;roll a dice for backup and try to restore it&quot; test script to make sure it is working

    Decent deduplication too so &quot;store year&#x27;s worth of weekly snapshot&quot; is very sensible strategy once you exclude the &quot;constantly changing and useless&quot; (caches etc.) files out of it

    can mount FUSE directory with all backups on sensible OSes.

    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kopia.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kopia.io&#x2F; does the same +GUI but a bit worse on CLI front (it insists on keeping local config which makes scripting a bit more involved, but not much)

    1. bt1a · · focus · HN ↗
      importantly, does your die have a side that corresponds to a multi-continental cataclysmic natural disaster of magnitude only known unknown to pre-recorded-history
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