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markusweb commented 6 years ago

i am in the process of evaluating backup solutions. so far i found restic, duplicacy and maybe borgbackup. at the moment i am saving my data with storeBackup an old perl solution.

with borg and restic i can store various directories, they can be anywhere on the server. with duplicacy i can only store and backup files and directory under the "working" dir. so i have to use duplicacy under / and work with a lot of exclusion rules in filters. is it possible to have duplicacy also store files outside the working dir?

i loke the idea of having a cloud backup via backblaze or wasabi and all the sftp-stuff. so borgbackup maybe out of the game. sofar i have to decide between retic and duplicacy. i like the mounting option of restic and borgbackup. duplicacy seems to be faster (i have tested it with one of my directories, a lot of subdir and xml-files. also the storage size is smaller with duplicacy. maybe i have to add some jpg and pdf files to see differences.

can i use duplicacy for a server backup (/etc, /home/xxx, /root, /data, /www, some /var/libs etc, mysql-dumps etc)?

any ideas?

TheBestPessimist commented 6 years ago

duplicacy can be used with symlinks: duplicacy follows symlinks if they are in the < repository root > (the folder which contains < .duplicacy/ >).

My setup for example is:

create a folder somewhere and init it
make symlinks in that folder for everything i want to backup,
backup that folder.

You could try that.

dreamflasher commented 6 years ago

@markusweb Your issue title is completely useless. Can you please update it to something meaningful? (eg. see my ticket: https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy/issues/419)

Mossop commented 5 years ago

The way I've handled this is to create some folder to be the directory to contain all of duplicacy settings. When inside it run duplicacy init -repository / .... You can then run duplicacy from that directory but it will back up any files under /, you just use filters to choose which. The filter rules are pretty annoying to work with though I know :(

TheBestPessimist commented 5 years ago

@gilbertchen i suggest we close this issue as the OP is MIA and it's not a duplicacy issue in itself. there's the forum for these kind of talks.

gilbertchen / duplicacy

Serverbackup #414