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I am looking for some incremental file backup software.
My rather flaky ZFS volume which had an incident yesterday falsely claiming that several of my SSD's had failed with thousands of errors. My ZFS warning message popup script worked great! A not so quick reboot and suddenly there are no errors at all.
I want to make incremental backups of my Virtual Machines one of which has a 1.5TB disk image to my NAS and some other files on a daily basis. I am remembering the old adage that RAID is not a Backup! I was lucky this time..
I think Timeshift would have to copy the entire disk image every time the contents change which would take too long.
Is there a Linux programme that can do this or am I better creating an image within the Virtual Machines and using Timeshift for the rest?
Edit: Thinking about it I don't think incremental backup of a file works like I thought. I doubt the software wood look for difference within a file and only record the new data.
Edit 2: I have installed Paragon Backup free to take care of the 2 Windows Virtual Machines. Timeshift won't save to a network share unless I am missing something. Would Rsync be suitable? I need to be able to role back files to previous versions of files in the event of corruption.
Edit 3: Paragon Backup turned out to be a disappointment, just as well as it was free. Macrium Reflect free seems to be much better.
My rather flaky ZFS volume which had an incident yesterday falsely claiming that several of my SSD's had failed with thousands of errors. My ZFS warning message popup script worked great! A not so quick reboot and suddenly there are no errors at all.
I want to make incremental backups of my Virtual Machines one of which has a 1.5TB disk image to my NAS and some other files on a daily basis. I am remembering the old adage that RAID is not a Backup! I was lucky this time..
I think Timeshift would have to copy the entire disk image every time the contents change which would take too long.
Is there a Linux programme that can do this or am I better creating an image within the Virtual Machines and using Timeshift for the rest?
Edit: Thinking about it I don't think incremental backup of a file works like I thought. I doubt the software wood look for difference within a file and only record the new data.
Edit 2: I have installed Paragon Backup free to take care of the 2 Windows Virtual Machines. Timeshift won't save to a network share unless I am missing something. Would Rsync be suitable? I need to be able to role back files to previous versions of files in the event of corruption.
Edit 3: Paragon Backup turned out to be a disappointment, just as well as it was free. Macrium Reflect free seems to be much better.
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