Re: increment backup of home dir

[jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com>]

On 15/3/25 17:22, Henrik Ahlgren wrote:
> Moreover, storing Git repositories on the same storage device as your
> original files only safeguards your data against your own mistakes. This
> is analogous to the (opposite) misconception that RAID systems serve as
> a backup solution; they only protect against hardware failures of one or
> more disks, and happily mirror all your mistakes for you. Proper backup
> system need to protect your data from most (ideally all) data loss
> scenarios.
>
> Fortunately, with Git, setting up remote copies on another disk or
> machine is straightforward, so it is an excellent backup tool for data
> sets that are well suited to version control, such as your writing
> projects.


I personally use git as my primary backup mechanism in a variety of ways.

- github - free but not completely private

- AWS -  free but likely private

- My own server Gitea - private but needing an off-prem host for best 
practice

git can handle large file sizes but best not, so backing up /etc and 
selected parts of /usr/local and /var is fine

git for /home/<user> is probably not a good idea but git for say 
/home/<user>/Documents is usually O.K.