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OS Backup - what should and what should not be backup'd?
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I back up all user data, for me that's some folders in
/var, all of/etc(don't need everything, but it's small enough), mysqldumps and pgsqldumps of my databases and the output ofdpkg --get-selections. And the backup script itself.Everything is rsynced to a server in another location.
I want to switch to Borg backup but haven't found the time yet.
I recommend Borgmatic, a declarative way to set up borg backups. I find it much nicer than a having a
backup.shscript and the configuration is really straight-forward.This is actually very interesting! I'll gladly look into it, thank you very much!
Since you haven't switched yet, perhaps consider restic too. I looked into Borg when I was trying to decide which backup software to use, but ended up deciding on restic instead and using resticprofile to ease implementation.