Can you please share your backup strategies for linux? I’m curious to know what tools you use and why?How do you automate/schedule backups? Which files/folders you back up? What is your prefered hardware/cloud storage and how do you manage storage space?

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    23 days ago

    I do it externally with this script

    #!/bin/bash
    # Sample file backup-documents.sh
    cd ${HOME}/documents
    tar -cJpf /run/media/fireshell/EAGET/mybackups/documents-$(date '+%Y-%m-%d').tar.xz .
    sync
    
    #!/bin/bash
    # Sample file restore-documents.sh
    backup_dir="/run/media/fireshell/EAGET/mybackups/"
    mkdir -p ~/documents
    last_documents="$(ls -1t ${backup_dir}/documents-*.tar.xz | head -n1)"
    cd ~/documents && \
      tar -xpf ${last_documents}