Subj : Re: Partitions setup; good?
To   : MeaTLoTioN
From : alterego
Date : Tue Aug 18 2020 15:48:02

  Re: Re: Partitions setup; good?
  By: MeaTLoTioN to All on Tue Aug 18 2020 12:40 am

 Me> stuff anyway... that does all that you say Restic does, I
 Me> wonder if Restic is easier to configure and manage than bareos lol.

I think its super easy to manage. I still need to look at the man page to do a
restore - its probably a little more complicated than I would like, but day to
day usage is a breeze.

My docker containers have "labels", and a cronjob reads those labels to do
daily backups (to know what to backup). Mostly database, so piping stdout
(normally mysqldump) to restic.

But using it is pretty simple. Figure out where your repository will be - ie:
local mount, remote target (like s3), etc.

Then, "restic init" to initialise the repostory. You provide a password, so
that it is encrypted (useful if your remote target is in the public somewhere).

Then, "restic backup" each time.

You'll get a bunch of backup points called "snapshots", so "restic snapshots"
gives you a list.

Every so often you should run "restic forget" and "restic purge" to reduce the
size of your repository.

Naturally "restic restore" is used for restore, and you can even "restic mount"
 (I think), which will fuse mount you backup snapshot, so you can copy files
out of it as if it was another mount point - I havent used that yet.

All of this from a single binary... As you can tell, I'm a fan...

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