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Anonymous

backups 03/31/26(Tue)13:42:16 No.108494042

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backups Anonymous 03/31/26(Tue)13:42:16 No.108494042 Archived

i literally just copy the folders directly onto the external SSD. i suppose i could zip em but the time it takes to compress is the time it takes to copy em over.
when i do it the next time i delete the old backup and then transfer it again
i am the king of inefficiency

Anonymous
03/31/26(Tue)13:51:12 No.108494092

Anonymous 03/31/26(Tue)13:51:12 No.108494092

>>108494042

tar -czf /mnt/backup/linux-isos.tar.gz /home/op/linux-isos

Anonymous
03/31/26(Tue)14:38:14 No.108494384

Anonymous 03/31/26(Tue)14:38:14 No.108494384

>>108494092
what good does a tar do for offline use?
t. dumb

Anonymous
03/31/26(Tue)15:05:13 No.108494577

Anonymous 03/31/26(Tue)15:05:13 No.108494577

>>108494384
smaller, easier to move around, less mutable

Anonymous
03/31/26(Tue)15:10:37 No.108494612

Anonymous 03/31/26(Tue)15:10:37 No.108494612

>>108494577
well ty

Anonymous
03/31/26(Tue)17:41:43 No.108495780

Anonymous 03/31/26(Tue)17:41:43 No.108495780

What you're doing is probably good if you have the space. If some kind of archive gets corrupted, you lose everything. If one file gets corrupted, you lose one file.

Anonymous
03/31/26(Tue)17:45:05 No.108495812

Anonymous 03/31/26(Tue)17:45:05 No.108495812

>>108495780
if a corrupted file can threaten your backup, what you have is something other than a backup.

Anonymous
03/31/26(Tue)17:48:18 No.108495831

Anonymous 03/31/26(Tue)17:48:18 No.108495831

>>108495812
right? so OP shouldn't be zipping his backups then?

Anonymous
03/31/26(Tue)17:48:20 No.108495832

Anonymous 03/31/26(Tue)17:48:20 No.108495832

>>108494092
Yoooo this nigga still archiving to tapes.

Anonymous
03/31/26(Tue)17:51:53 No.108495862

Anonymous 03/31/26(Tue)17:51:53 No.108495862

>>108495812
unitedstatian education moment

Anonymous
03/31/26(Tue)17:57:18 No.108495892

Anonymous 03/31/26(Tue)17:57:18 No.108495892

>>108495831
just use a filesystem with built in compression for your backup
you could even ratchet up the compression level and it's all transparent.

Anonymous
03/31/26(Tue)17:58:42 No.108495900

Anonymous 03/31/26(Tue)17:58:42 No.108495900

>>108494042
I generally do zfs send incremental and i also use restrict to have a cloud backup on top for the most important stuff.

Anonymous
03/31/26(Tue)20:57:13 No.108497050

Anonymous 03/31/26(Tue)20:57:13 No.108497050

>>108495831
if any file being corrupted is a risk to your backup, you don't have a backup. doesn't matter whether you zip it or not.
a proper backup does not care whether any files anywhere are being corrupted or not.