because synching runs all the time. any change that I make is nearly immediately updated offsite. and if you think that is my only backup of my photos, you would be wrong :-) This is only a “if I lost all my physical possessions” type backup, not an “oops, I am a dummy and deleted something I shouldn’t have” backup. I have multiple snapshot backups and also run incremental backups every hour. Storage is so cheap any more that I don’t hesitate to have 5 backups of the REALLY important stuff. Most of my server storage is also raid5 in case of hardware failure. I have pushover set up to check for disk failures and push alerts to my phone if one is ever detected.
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mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 10 months agoOk, why syncthing and not rsync? Also, duplication should not be threated as backup.
wittless@lemmy.world 10 months ago
mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oh, okay! thanks for the clarification. What are you using for incremental backups?
wittless@lemmy.world 10 months ago
my primary laptop is a Mac, but my main server is a proxmox host running many containers for various things. one is a samba server that holds my Time Machine backups.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
It can be if the off-site duplicate has automatic snapshots.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 10 months ago
ST has stupid-simple clients for every OS. Rsync doesn’t (though it’s more capable in my opinion).