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Mark_in_Hollywood
June 16th, 2017, 11:03 PM
Would I be better off putting / on an ssd and using Ubuntu's "Backups" to periodically transfer the data saved on the ssd to the hdd? Or is is better to have / on the ssd and /home on the hdd?

If I were to save files/folders on the ssd for speed, can I use "Backups" to transfer the data over to the backup drive incrementally to the data already on the /home; and then to the external backup hdd?

I do weekly backups in any event.

oldfred
June 17th, 2017, 04:44 AM
I keep / (root) on SSD including /home so my user settings load quickly. But all my data is on HDD in /mnt/data. I do that as I have multiple installs and want to have same data available in all installs, but probably not all /home user settings.

I do use rsync to incrementally copy data from one drive to another. But a copy of data is not really a backup as true back up has versioned copies, so if you edit a file you can go back to a version before the edit. Copy would just overwrite old with newest version.
I also copy most critical files to DVD, flash drive and other systems, and probably not in the most organized way, but what mostly works for me.

discussion of alternatives/strategy backups
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CategoryBackupRecovery


https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Full_system_backup_with_rsync
Discussion of issues on rsync bash file & rdiff-backup - TheFu
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2224428
http://www.kirya.net/articles/backups-using-rdiff-backup/

(http://www.kirya.net/articles/backups-using-rdiff-backup/)
Originally Posted by MountainX View Post #20 also other backup apps
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=868244&p=7015603#post7015603
Sample rsync file, use a text editor and paste into a file & name it mybackup.sh
of course, do the dry run first


(http://www.kirya.net/articles/backups-using-rdiff-backup/)