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olenko Jun 14, 2024

Tools and ideas for backup of many files

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.

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mlaga97 Jun 14, 2024

Restic and borg are both sorta considered ‘standard’ for doing incremental backups beyond filesystem snapshotting.

I use restic and it automatically handles stuff like snapshotting, compression, deduplication, and encryption for you.

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kylian0087 Jun 14, 2024

For automated backups defiantly. For a one time use I often use just rsync. It is the simplest to quickly use.

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lemmyvore

If you literally mean one time then rsync is fine-ish… if you combine it with a checksum tool so you can verify it copied everything properly.

If you need to backup regularly then you need something that can do deduplication, error checking, compression, probably encryption too. Rsync won’t cut it, unless you mean to cover each of those points using a different tool. But there are tools like borg that can do all of them.