From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Backing up a GuixSD system? rsnapshot doesn't seem to like the store.
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 19:53:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170306005348.GB13651@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pohv2qsd.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 04:27:14PM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote:
> <dian_cecht@zoho.com> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> > 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).
You might want to investigate what other things rsnapshot may be failing
to preserve.
> > I'd prefer something that has data deduplication at the very least.
I recommend borg.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-23 18:33 Backing up a GuixSD system? rsnapshot doesn't seem to like the store dian_cecht
2017-03-02 12:56 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-03-02 13:06 ` dian_cecht
2017-03-02 14:13 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-03-06 0:27 ` Chris Marusich
2017-03-06 0:53 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
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