calcoline582

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Alternatives to Borg backup for incremental backup of personal data? in c/recommendations@lemmy.world
[–] calcoline582@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

This would require me to have a ZFS partition first and transfer my data on it, right?

Right now I am not using ZFS, but for next OS reinstall, I might try it. Thank you.

Alternatives to Borg backup for incremental backup of personal data? in c/recommendations@lemmy.world
[–] calcoline582@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah I use Linux and am comfortable with command line.

I am not looking for continuous backup though. I would occasionally add stuff to backup - like every few months or so. I also want the incremental backup part - not sure if encrypting backed up data using luks would allow incremental addition later on.

I will check rsync and luks. If you have any resources, please feel free to post here.

Alternatives to Borg backup for incremental backup of personal data? in c/recommendations@lemmy.world
[–] calcoline582@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What do you mean by configuration and backup script?

Configuration as in dotfiles?

What does a backup script look like? Like a list of borg commands - one for each directory + repo which you want to backup? Or something more?

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Alternatives to Borg backup for incremental backup of personal data? (programming.dev)
 

Hello, I have a bunch of personal data - videos, pictures, documents, PDFs etc. that I want to backup.

I am wondering what is the best way to do this?

Requirements -

  • I want to backup multiple different folders from my Linux computer - it is not a full disk backup.
  • Encryption would be great to have.
  • This needs to be a long term backup - like few years or more.
  • Data - small videos, pictures, PDFs, text files, documents, etc. Total size - less than 50-60 GB (for now - but it can increase over time).
  • I want to be able to incrementally add more data to backup of respective folders (e.g. new photos, documents etc.), or even add new folders.
  • After backup, I want to be able to cleanup my hard disk, reinstall OS or restore data from backup onto a completely new system in a new directory.
  • I do not care about stuff like file metadata like owner user, permissions etc.

Questions -

  1. Is one or more flash drives good for such kind of backup? Or would it get corrupt within few years?
  2. I found Borg backup, but it suggests that backup should be restored on the same machine - which does not seem to fit my use case.
  • It also suggests to keep Borg config directory - which again conflicts with restoring or adding new items from a different system.
  • Not sure how well this would work if restoring on a new system?
  • Are there any better alternatives?
  1. If I do use Borg, should using one repository per folder be the way to go about it? Or is there a better way?
  2. In Borg itself, I am thinking of using the repokey method (key stored with the repository) - and store the passphrase in a KeePass database on a different flash drive. Any different suggestions?

Please feel free to suggest any alternatives or improvements to my plan?

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Good way to backup some personal data? (programming.dev)
 

Hello, I have a bunch of personal data - videos, pictures, documents, PDFs etc. that I want to backup.

I am wondering what is the best way to do this?

Requirements -

  • I want to backup multiple different folders from my Linux computer - it is not a full disk backup.
  • Encryption would be great to have.
  • This needs to be a long term backup - like few years or more.
  • Data - small videos, pictures, PDFs, text files, documents, etc. Total size - less than 50-60 GB (for now - but it can increase over time).
  • I want to be able to incrementally add more data to backup of respective folders (e.g. new photos, documents etc.), or even add new folders.
  • After backup, I want to be able to cleanup my hard disk, reinstall OS or restore data from backup onto a completely new system in a new directory.
  • I do not care about stuff like file metadata like owner user, permissions etc.

Questions -

  1. Is one or more flash drives good for such kind of backup? Or would it get corrupt within few years?
  2. I found Borg backup, but it suggests that backup should be restored on the same machine - which does not seem to fit my use case.
  • It also suggests to keep Borg config directory - which again conflicts with restoring or adding new items from a different system.
  • Not sure how well this would work if restoring on a new system?
  • Are there any better alternatives?
  1. If I do use Borg, should using one repository per folder be the way to go about it? Or is there a better way?
  2. In Borg itself, I am thinking of using the repokey method (key stored with the repository) - and store the passphrase in a KeePass database on a different flash drive. Any different suggestions?

Please feel free to suggest any alternatives or improvements to my plan.

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Best way to backup some personal data? (programming.dev)
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Is it possible to develop Firefox browser extensions without writing JavaScript / TypeScript? (programming.dev)
 

Hello, I was looking at WXT extension framework which supports multiple UI frameworks, but they are all JavaScript frameworks only. Is there any alternative way to write Firefox browser extension in a different language (like Rust / Python / Go, etc.) with minimal or no JavaScript, with a ok developer experience?

Transpilation to JavaScript is fine if it is well supported in Firefox with ok developer experience.

I also checked Dart but its support on Firefox does not seem great, like the extension only works on Chrome browsers.