I have used Tarsnap since at least 2017. The jobs ran nightly. It wasn’t until three years later, that I started cleaning up old backups. Now I’ve found a tool which manages this for me (sysutils/acts) courtesy of a toot by M W Lucas. The selling point of this tool: By default, 31 daily, 12 […]
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I use Tarsnap for my critical data. Case in point, I use it to backup my Bacula database dump. I use Bacula to backup my hosts. The database in question keeps track of what was backed up, from what host, the file size, checksum, where that backup is now, and many other items. Losing this
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NOTE: I wrote this post nearly two years ago, in May 2015. It has been sitting ignored and unloved in my Drafts. I’ve just published it today. I’m big on backups and I use Bacula. I have about 18 TB on about 350 tapes and about 10 TB of backups on disk. I want more.
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