Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

["Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com>]

On Sat, Nov 2, 2019, at 1:30 PM, Konstantin Nebel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Anyway from my experience borg is the best and I can recommend it wormly.
> 
> I appreciate you answering in the fullest how you do backups and I used borg
> in the past which I can recommend as well. But I really want to focus on how
> to trigger the backup in an automated way and not in which tool is recommended
> to use.
> 
> > My use case is quite opposite. I shut down the backup server as I do only
> > weekly and monthly backups.
> 
> I assume u trigger them manually then? I would like to do them automatically
> and hopefully forget about them that they exist and do the occasional check if
> they work or not :)

For this I use "rsnapshot," which schedules it's backup runs via Linux "cron".  It's pretty much "fire and forget" once you've done the configuration details.

Hope that helps!
Rick