Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?
On Mon, 2024-09-30 at 21:55 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Mon Sep 30, 2024 at 5:39 PM BST, Default User wrote:
> > So, is there a consensus on which would be better:
> > 1) continue to "mirror" drive A to drive B?
> > or,
> > 2) alternate backups daily between drives A and B?
>
> I'd go for (B), especially if you're continuing to do daily backups,
> so
> the oldest backup with an alternating pattern is 2 days.
>
> I do daily backups to a permanently-connected drive (I used to use
> rsnapshot for that, then rdiff-backup, now I use borg); monthly syncs
> of
> that drive to one of two external drives (rsync of the borg
> repository),
> which live off-site and I alternate those. If I lose my
> permanently-connected backup drive, one of the external drives is a
> month old and the other two months old, which I am happy with.
>
>
Hi, Jonathan!
May I ask why you decided to switch from rsnapshot to rdiff-backup, and
then to borg?
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