Tools and ideas for backup of many files

https://feddit.nl/post/16669415

Tools and ideas for backup of many files - feddit.nl

Hello everyone, In a day or two, I am getting a motherboard with an N100 integrated CPU as a replacement to the Raspberry Pi 4 (2 GB Model). I want to run Jellyfin, the *arr stack and Immich on it. However, I have a lot of photos and movies (in total about 400 GB) that I want to back up, just in case something happens. I have one 1TB drive to do that (which is also going to be my boot drive). How can I do that? Just copy the files? Do I need to compress them first? What tools do I need to use, and how would you do it? Thanks in advance.

I use rsync with a systemd timer. When I first installed the backup drive it took a while to build the file system, but now every Monday it runs, finds the difference between source and target drive, and pulls just the changes down for backup. It’s pretty quick, doesn’t do any compression or anything like that.