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selfmate@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

is that your only expansion option on the system you have?

For now, yes, that’s the only option. I’ll look into internal drives the next time.

thanks for the info about RAID 1 and BTRFS in raid1c2

I’ll look into kopia as well since I only knew about borg.

I am using mergerfs for years, it’s really neat.

thanks for sharing all of that!

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MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The main advantages of Kopia, are speed and destination flexibility.

The off-site storage does not need to have Kopia installed. It can be a mounted network location, an FTP server. Whatever. A generic cloud storage bucket like Backblaze B2.

That’s why just a router with and external drive hooked up is able to suffice.

For all of these, you can connect multiple Kopia instances to that same destination, and each client can browse backups, restore from them, and backup their own files to the destination.

With borg, you need something like a Pi that can have borg installed. (You can also do this with Kopia, in which case the Kopia instance on the destination device is also able to manage the backups).

Kopia also beats borg and restic in speed. My daily backups typically complete within a minute or two. I used to use Duplicati, with which it was common for it to take up to an hour. When it started regularly taking more than an hour, I switched to Kopia.

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- selfmate@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  thanks! I installed it and created my first backup. I’ll test it and see how it goes. It looks good. Thank you!
  
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- selfmate@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I can’t find anything related to systemd or cron. Does it have its own scheduler? I already set policies. I’m just wondering if I forgot something to setup.
  
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  - MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Depends. If you are running it as a service that starts with the system (sudo sysemctl enable kopia) then yes, it will use it’s own scheduler.
    
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    selfmate@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Thank you!
    
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    selfmate@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I couldn’t find a systemd unit or service.
    
    Kopia will then automatically begin taking the snapshot following the settings you set for the policy. link
    
    I’m not yet sure about that
    
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