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Goals

Provide onsite and offsite archiving and disaster recovery.

Onsite file sync

Synchronize several laptops and phones using BTSync to a local backup server with large attached storage (a few TB at least). Do this continuously to provide a single local backup.

Onsite snapshot backups

Use rsync to create an incremental snapshot backup on the same machine, but different volume. This provides a Time Machine style point-in-time rollback. This sync should happen once per day (at least). A symlink to the latest snapshot will be maintained as well.

https://github.com/mumrah/rsync-time-backup as the rsync script

./rsync_tmbackup.sh /Users/mumrah/iPhone /tmp/staging excludes.txt

Offsite sync

Once per day/week/whatever, synchronize the "latest" pointer to S3

s3cmd -c s3.cfg sync latest s3://mumrah-backup

Restore from onsite backup

TODO

Restore from offsite backup

TODO

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