Hello everyone,
In a day or two, I am getting a motherboard with an N100 integrated CPU as a replacement to the Raspberry Pi 4 (2 GB Model). I want to run Jellyfin, the *arr stack and Immich on it. However, I have a lot of photos(for Immich) and movies(for Jellyfin) (in total about 400 GB) that I want to back up, just in case something happens. I have two 1TB drives, one will have the original files, and the second will be my boot drive and have the backup files.
How can I do that? Just copy the files? Do I need to compress them first? What tools do I need to use, and how would you do it?
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that I would prefer the backups to be local.
Restic and borg are both sorta considered ‘standard’ for doing incremental backups beyond filesystem snapshotting.
I use restic and it automatically handles stuff like snapshotting, compression, deduplication, and encryption for you.
For automated backups defiantly. For a one time use I often use just rsync. It is the simplest to quickly use.
I do find rclone to be a bit more comprehensible for that purpose, rsync always makes me feel like I’m in https://xkcd.com/1168/
If you literally mean one time then rsync is fine-ish… if you combine it with a checksum tool so you can verify it copied everything properly.
If you need to backup regularly then you need something that can do deduplication, error checking, compression, probably encryption too. Rsync won’t cut it, unless you mean to cover each of those points using a different tool. But there are tools like borg that can do all of them.