Subj : Mystic Backup Solutions... Help?
To   : All
From : paulie420
Date : Tue Oct 27 2020 07:45:35

Backing up my Mystic BBS...

I've always just used Rsync to backup my board; it was around 100-200MB so who cares, I'd keep multiplecopies around and it wasn't a big deal.

I've recently added files to /mystic/files... so now my backup is 5GB and growing. Sure, I could -excludethe files dirs, but... I want to keep the whole thing backed up. I want it to be a perfect backup, with all the permissions saved and... ready to be implemented if I have a crash. Ultimately, I should be able to 'unbackup' and have Mystic boot up. :/ 

So, I found rdiff-backup ... is this a good Linux option? I'd like a backup that doesn't recopy all those files each time; a backup that just makes new file changes/directory changes... it would be a lot quicker and just  streamlined. Currently, using rsync, I'm making separate backups and... 

How do YOU backup Mystic? (And all your directories.) Do you exclude your file
section directories?Is there a way to use a backup service/app that only makes new changes and doesn't keep full separate copies of backups? Does all this make sense to you, master sysOp??? LOL.

I don't know if rdiff-backup will do these implemental backups, but I'm  digging... figured I'd make a post and use your know-how... furthermore, I notice both xqtr and Black Panthers Mystic tools for making backups. Should I use one of these?? Ok... done.

Thanks in advance, ladies n gents...



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