I recently implemented a backup workflow for me. I heavily use restic for desktop backup and for a full system backup of my local server. It works amazingly good. I always have a versioned backup without a lot of redundant data. It is fast, encrypted and compressed.

But I wondered, how do you guys do your backups? What software do you use? How often do you do them and what workflow do you use for it?

  • everett@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    only drawback is that it doesn’t create differential backups

    This is a big drawback because even if you don’t need to keep old versions of files, you could be replicating silent disk corruption to your backup.

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      28 minutes ago

      It’s not a drawback because rsync has supported incremental versioned backups for over a decade, you just have to use the flag and add a couple lines of code around it for management.