Subj : Backup policy
To   : Rixter
From : Keyop
Date : Sun Jan 12 2025 23:38:41

  Re: Backup policy
  By: Rixter to All on Sun Jan 12 2025 12:32:05

 > I do a full backup on the bbs once a week, I am beginning to think a differential backup would be better and faster. I am backing up to a 10 tb usb. It takes 45 minutes right now. What are the critical
 > folders to back up in your opinion. I am just using the copy command. What do you use and what areas do you backup?

I use a combination of backup routines:

1. The server is backed up every day as an image which includes the OS and applications (e.g. sbbs)  using Active Backup for Business by Synology (using their default retention policy = keep the latest of 7 days, 4 weeks, 12 months, 3 years).
2. I rsync the whole /sbbs directory to another server in another country every day.
3. I use tar with xz to copy sbbs minus data/dirs/ to same server above every day retaining the last 30 days.

Probably an overkill, but you can never have enough backups in my view :)

K

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