On Mon Sep 30, 2024 at 5:39 PM BST, Default User wrote: > So, is there a consensus on which would be better: > 1) continue to "mirror" drive A to drive B? > or, > 2) alternate backups daily between drives A and B?
I'd go for (B), especially if you're continuing to do daily backups, so the oldest backup with an alternating pattern is 2 days. I do daily backups to a permanently-connected drive (I used to use rsnapshot for that, then rdiff-backup, now I use borg); monthly syncs of that drive to one of two external drives (rsync of the borg repository), which live off-site and I alternate those. If I lose my permanently-connected backup drive, one of the external drives is a month old and the other two months old, which I am happy with. -- Please do not CC me for listmail. 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎ j...@debian.org 🔗 https://jmtd.net
