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     Re: Backup policy   
     By: Rixter to All on Sun Jan 12 2025 12:32:05   
      
    > I do a full backup on the bbs once a week, I am beginning to think a   
   differential backup would be better and faster. I am backing up to a 10 tb   
   usb. It takes 45 minutes right now. What are the critical   
    > folders to back up in your opinion. I am just using the copy command. What   
   do you use and what areas do you backup?   
      
   I use a combination of backup routines:   
      
   1. The server is backed up every day as an image which includes the OS and   
   applications (e.g. sbbs)  using Active Backup for Business by Synology (using   
   their default retention policy = keep the latest of 7 days, 4 weeks, 12   
   months, 3 years).   
   2. I rsync the whole /sbbs directory to another server in another country   
   every day.   
   3. I use tar with xz to copy sbbs minus data/dirs/ to same server above every   
   day retaining the last 30 days.   
      
   Probably an overkill, but you can never have enough backups in my view :)   
      
   K   
      
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