From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Backing up a GuixSD system? rsnapshot doesn't seem to like the store. Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 13:56:28 +0100 Message-ID: <87mvd3x2f7.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20170223103255.3574cd7d@khaalida> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36858) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjQHf-0004mg-Tf for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 07:56:41 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjQHb-00085V-3v for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 07:56:39 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21032) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjQHa-00084v-UA for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 07:56:35 -0500 In-reply-to: <20170223103255.3574cd7d@khaalida> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: dian_cecht@zoho.com Cc: help-guix@gnu.org dian_cecht@zoho.com writes: > My normal backup software (rsnapshot) doesn't seem to play > terribly well with GuixSD because the software uses hardlinks for it's > deduplication, so I'm looking for alternatives (or someone to tell me > what needs to happen to get rsnapshot to backup /gnu/store without > issue). > > I'd prefer something that has data deduplication at the very least. I’m using borg for backups, but I haven’t tested backing up the store itself because the state of my software environment is fully described by the manifest and the guix version. You can disable store deduplication if that causes problems, but that has the obvious disadvantage of using more space. ~~ Ricardo