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Using rsync for backups, because it's not shiny and new (tinkerbetter.tube)

submitted 2 days ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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You might not even like rsync. Yeah it's old. Yeah it's slow. But if you're working with Linux you're going to need to know it.

In this video I walk through my favorite everyday flags for rsync.

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Here's a companion blog post, where I cover a bit more detail: https://vkc.sh/everyday-rsync

Also, @BreadOnPenguins made an awesome rsync video and you should check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eifQI5uD6VQ

Lastly, I left out all of the ssh setup stuff because I made a video about that and the blog post goes into a smidge more detail. If you want to see a video covering the basics of using SSH, I made one a few years ago and it's still pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FKsdbjzBcc

Chapters:
1:18 Invoking rsync
4:05 The --delete flag for rsync
5:30 Compression flag: -z
6:02 Using tmux and rsync together
6:30 but Veronica... why not use (insert shiny object here)

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

It's not bad if you don't need historical backups. I kinda think I do, so I use https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic becase rust

Restic (https://github.com/restic/restic) is probably a better choice if you're not a rust-freak like me.

[–] harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 hours ago

Rustic scares me. I will 100% forget what tool I used to backup after 5 years and be unable to recover my files.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I use rsync + ZFS for backups which includes historical backups

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

Yup, just configure a snapshot policy and you can recover deleted and modified files going back as long as you choose. And it is probably more space efficient than both/restic too.