On Mon, 2024-09-30 at 21:55 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > 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. > >
Hi, Jonathan! May I ask why you decided to switch from rsnapshot to rdiff-backup, and then to borg?
