commit c2fdefcc9f91bcf08fc0ebd832a3e98f0b68e376
parent 0b00fb3536c5308b2e0de5000f16abc7a5c9bb06
Author: pyratebeard <root@pyratebeard.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 22:19:16 +0100
smoke_me_a_kipper
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diff --git a/entry/smoke_me_a_kipper.md b/entry/smoke_me_a_kipper.md
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## i'll be back(up) for breakfast
-Earlier this year I wrote about my [backup setup](20220414-speak_of_the_dedup.html) and this last week I had to put it to the test.
+Earlier this year I wrote about my [backup setup](20220414-speak_of_the_dedup.html) and recently I had to put it to the test.
My PC is a tower that I have on a small stand next to my desk. In the past I had kept the case (an Antec 1200) on my desk but it is rather large and dominates the space a bit too much, I don't have a very big desk. The other day my 1 year old toddled into the study and started pushing the power button on my PC. This power cycled the machine a few times in quick succession. At the time I wasn't aware of this. The next morning I booted up my PC but noticed it was very sluggish. It crashed trying to open my browser. After it happened again I started digging through the logs and noticed some filesystem corruption.
@@ -21,9 +21,16 @@ Once the RAID array was reformatted I began the data copy from my external drive
This got me to a relatively good position. Okay I had lost some random downloads, and a little bit of code that hadn't been pushed to my git server, but nothing serious. It is a little disappointing though, my backup setup is not good enough.
-The reason I don't do a full nightly backup to the cloud is because `rclone` takes so long to copy the data. I decided to look into this, to see if it could be sped up. Reading the man page shows that `rclone` has an option to only transfer files younger than a specified age, `--max-age=`. Using `dedup` means I don't have to transfer everything each time `rclone` runs, only the most recent archive. Testing this brought my nightly backup time down to TK.
+I decided I needed more regular backups of my $HOME, so I needed some more storage. I purchased another external drive which now sits permanently plugged into my PC. I was going to use `dedup` again but decided it would be better to use an alternative so I am not relying on only one tool. I opted for [borg](TK){target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"}.
-I decided I needed more regular backups of my $HOME, so I needed some more storage. I purchased another external drive which now sits permanently plugged into my PC. I was going to use `dedup` again but decided it would be better to use an alternative tool so I am not relying on only one tool. I opted for `rsnapshot`. The first backup did take a long time, but now each evening I can run `rsnapshot` to backup my $HOME to the external drive and `rclone` that latest archive to the cloud storage.
+After installing `borg` I initialised a new repo and kicked off a full backup
+```
+ ──── ─ borg init -e repokey /media/backup/new_repo
+ ──── ─ borg create -v --stats /media/backup/new_repo::backup1 $HOME
+```
+The first backup did take a long time, but now each evening I can run `borg` to backup my $HOME to the external drive.
+
+and `rclone` that latest archive to the cloud storage.
Another full backup will still be done to the drive in my bug out bag, I just have to be better at doing it more regularly. At least now if I need to restore I will be able to recover all of $HOME and not only the important things.
