Comment on Using rsnapshot on a nextcloud borg backup?
florian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
- So, you do want to run rsnapshot on the Borg repository (the destination to which is backed up)? Both rsnapshot and Borg keep a history, so you are keeping a history of when the Borg repository had which history. This will not be particularly efficient nor “as intended”.
- be aware that Borg does incremental backups on file chunks, while rsnapshot works on whole files. So if a large file changes, rsnapshot will duplicate the storage used.
- a Borg repository is more like a database of chunks (similar to git), while rsnapshot recreates the original backup data.
According to borgbackup.readthedocs.io/…/data-structures.html the repository storage consists of 500mb files. So using rsnapshot on those, will not be work as you want it to.