[PLUG] Restic backup & TimeShift

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

Thanks to Lee for some great info last night at PLUG West.

To follow up on some discussion, here are some links about Restic I've 
found helpful:
* https://github.com/restic/restic  (Go)
* https://jpmens.net/2017/08/22/my-backup-software-of-choice-restic/
* https://jpmens.net/2017/09/06/my-restic-backend-of-choice-minio/
* Restic (repo) wrapper: https://github.com/binarybucks/restic-tools
* 
https://morimori.tokyo/2017/08/backups-with-restic-a-raspberry-pi-and-a-4tb-hdd/
	* Lots of great details!
* minio is an open source object storage server compatible with Amazon 
S3 APIs
	* https://github.com/minio/minio (Go)

I use BackupPC as my main backup tool and that has worked very well for 
many years, but that's on-site to disk.  So I also use BoxBackup for 
critical stuff to a server at my Mom's house.  BoxBackup does *exactly* 
the same things as Restic, it's just a bit more complicated to set up 
and use.  Both are in the Debian/whatever repos.

We didn't get to talk about it, but Linux Mint has released "TimeShift" 
which is basically Mac Time Machine for Linux, implemented using `rsync` 
and hardlinks (like a whole bunch of other similar tools) or BTRFS.  But 
it has a very nice GUI wizard and management tool that makes it 
drop-dead simple.

I've played with it a little, but I already have enough backup 
strategies.  It also _sounds_ great, but it's not clear to me how you 
recover if something goes bad enough that you can't boot.  I imagine 
there are CLI recovery methods if you can boot to a recovery shell or a 
previous kernel, but I haven't investigated.

HA, that's interesting.  I just tried to run it on my Mint-17 desktop 
and it told me I don't have enough free space.  I get "Not enough disk 
space (< 534.5 GB)" on my 1TB disk (that's really an mdadm mirror on 2x 
1TB disks).  Oh well...

Links:
* https://www.maketecheasier.com/backup-computer-timeshift-linux-mint/
* 
http://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/timeshift.html

Later,
JP
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