Comment on How often do you run backups on your system?
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
I run Borg nightly, backing up the majority of the data on my boot disk, incl docker volumes and config + a few extra folders.
Each individual archive is around 375gb, but because of the de-duplication and compression it’s only ~600mb of new data each day taking around 3min to complete the backup.
Borgs de-duplication is honestly incredible. I keep 7 daily backups, 3 weekly, 11 monthly, then one for each year beyond that. The 21 historical backups I have right now RAW would be 10.98tb of data. After de-duplication and compression it only takes up 407.98gb on disk.
With that kind of space savings, I see no reason not to keep such frequent backups. Hell, the whole archive takes up less space than one copy of the original data.
+1 for borg
`------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Original size Compressed size Deduplicated size This archive: 602.47 GB 569.64 GB 15.68 MB All archives: 16.33 TB 15.45 TB 607.71 GB
Unique chunks Total chunks
Chunk index: 2703719 18695670 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------`
Sunny@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
Thanks for sharing the details on this, very interesting!