FWIW-
I have used restic backup for quite some time and highly recommend it.
It is fast also and does incremental.
I wrote a small script to weekly check and prune the repositories and it works flawlessly. It also does a keep n-daily, n-monthly, n-yearly as you see fit.
73
Charles



On Sunday, May 26th, 2024 at 8:26 AM, Antony Stone <Antony.Stone@???> wrote:

> On Saturday 25 May 2024 at 20:07:55, nisp1953 via Dng wrote:
>
> > I need advice on ways to backup my /home user account. I have been using tar
> > but I am hoping the list can advise me of a better backup method or Debian
> > (Devuan) package that I can use.
> > I'd prefer something that does incremental backups.
>
>
> My first question is "what / where can you, or do you want to, backup this data
> to?"
>
> I mean, are you trying to simply create a copy elsewhere on the same machine,
> do you want to copy it across a network to another machine, are you writing to
> removable media such as tape / disk / USB stick / whatever people use these
> days?
>
> Also, what is your reason for preferring incremental backups?
>
> They may be smaller than full backups, but they're more fiddly to restore from,
> you still need to do full backups from time to time anyway, and depending on
> the media you're writing to and the reliability of being able to restore from
> it when you need to, a failure in any of the incremental backups since the
> last full one means you lose data, so in some ways the risk is higher with
> incrementals.
>
> Finally, what sort of quantity of data are you talking about - "du -sh ~"?
>
>
> Antony.
>
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