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How do you all go about backing up your data, on Linux?
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ZFS send / recieve and snapshots.
me too. ZFS is amazing
Does this method allow to pick what you need to backup or it's the entire filesystem?
It allows me to copy select datasets inside the pool.
So I can choose rpool/USERDATA/so-n-so_123xu4 for user so-n-so. I can also choose copy copy some or all of the rpool/ROOT/ubuntu_abcdef, and it's nested datasets.
I settle for backing up users and rpool/ROOT/ubuntu_abcdef, ignoring the stuff in var datasets. This gets me my users home, roots home, /opt. Tis all I need. I have snapshots and mirrored m2 ssd's for handling most other problems (which I've not yet had).
The only bugger is /boot (on bpool). Kernel updates grown in there and fill it up, even if you remove them via apt... because snapshots. So I have to be careful to clean it's snapshots.