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@lakeswimmer I use #rsnapshot. Been using it for years and it works great. I'm also one of the project maintainers so am biased.

In a brand new installation where everything used #ZFS (and really, everything *should* use ZFS - if it's not properly supported in your OS the OS is faulty and you should use a different one) then these days I'd use zfs send/recv, wrapped in #sanoid / #syncoid - https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid

mauvehed 🐿️ (KØMVH)Mar 22

Ripping Out Three Backup Systems and Replacing Them with One (Part 1: The Mess)

https://rant.mvh.dev/ripping-out-three-backup-systems-and-replacing-them-with-one-part-1-the-mess/

#selfhosted #bacula #backups #homelab #rsnapshot #rsync

Ripping Out Three Backup Systems and Replacing Them with One (Part 1: The Mess)

I had three different backup systems, of which, none would likely restore a full server. The archaeology If you'd asked me six months ago "are your servers backed up?" I would have said yeah, sure. And I would likely have been lying, though I didn't know it at the time.

mauveRANT

Simon Josefsson Jan 17

Backup of S3 Objects Using rsnapshot #backups #s3 #rsnapshot #rsync https://blog.josefsson.org/2026/01/18/backup-of-s3-objects-using-rsnapshot/

Backup of S3 Objects Using rsnapshot – Simon Josefsson's blog

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David Cantrell 🏏Jan 9

@dalai @jwildeboer @kkarhan #zfs snapshots, zfs send/recv. If you can't do zfs then one of the innumerable wrappers around #rsync. I recommend #rsnapshot.

Daniel Böhmer Jan 8

Ergänzung zu meinem Vortrag über #rsnapshot bei den @clt_news #clt2025:

Wie pausiert man laufende #mdadm-Checks, während ein Backup läuft, damit Backup und #RAID-Check sich nicht gegenseitig ausbremsen?

Dafür habe ich seit letztem Jahr ein Skript als Wrapper für die rsnapshot-Aufrufe geschrieben, der alle laufenden Checks pausiert, ein Kommando (in meinem Fall rsnapshot) ausführt und danach – unabhängig vom Erfolg des Kommandos – die Checks fortsetzt. Ich habe es jetzt hier zum Git-Repo hinzugefügt:

https://gitlab.com/dboehmer/clt2025-rsnapshot#nachtr%C3%A4gliche-erg%C3%A4nzung-mdadm-checks-pausieren-w%C3%A4hrend-backups

Haack’s Networking Dec 26

Haack's Networking - Informal Hacking Session #03

1) Today's agenda is rsnapshot script/stack migration from backup 8700 machine to 7920, i.e., to backup the backup.

2) Write the article for the bind9 authoritative DNS server.

3) If time and/or stamina permits, we will work on this month's timbre post where I cover my month's listening history.

Live Steam w/ Chat: https://content.haacksnetworking.org/w/byjvKm4LXLLn7q4ngYaG8f

#livestream #live #gnulinux #sysadmin #floss #freesoftware #rsync #rsnapshot #shellscripts

Andrew Wigglesworth Dec 8

A lesson on backups.

Whilst intending to format a usbdrive, thicko here managed to reformat his little RAID box and delete all of his local backups and archived files.

🙄

However, slightly less thick me also has a backup (including archives) on a remote server; which is being restored locally as I type.

This is the end of this public service announcement.

#rsnapshot #dejadup #gnomebackups #debian #gnulinux

David Cantrell 🏏Oct 29, 2025

@sadmin I use #rsnapshot, which is a wrapper around rsync. When I started using it it was because it was the best tool available for my use-case, and am now one of the maintainers. These days I'd go with something else but am still using it because inertia. I want something that will do zfs send/recv when that's available and continue to use rsync when it's not.