From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jun 3 07:19:11 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C240B68B09 for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2016 07:19:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fluca1978@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oi0-x22d.google.com (mail-oi0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c06::22d]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 11ED710BD for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2016 07:19:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fluca1978@gmail.com) Received: by mail-oi0-x22d.google.com with SMTP id w184so114167131oiw.2 for ; Fri, 03 Jun 2016 00:19:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to; bh=dwejll2sWWkEFEPaJ61ZG37nS+0wsknyH3eEyc2Ahv8=; b=Nn7mwYR43XpeIVy3++J8XCmLwqYcumvB2BjvHQm++T7Y5/96rcvfHF2DI1xjNbESfC xZXJbIjIllfVTmTPQQpyc3pNFTHn2miGtMVEetbjkCC6SxRL1INKDbcAmDlClFOjOl84 CmgXEtETOM7pp7uzzh8413w4WgV6E9KWoVa0pp359We2nxDDid4G56CYBwf+OcD54Fik YcDfrJKsWcc1AqKaXKfmvLJv+9mMwAiZCbkObZBTLxmL1i9+IwWPF11XsgPif2rbRJnQ Q3ALMpr+8uEQiX/7qxLX9CjFbgg9CsUz9OzZqoM/24s51C3eTwjqudUHofj7lnuvbzCi vf/g== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to; bh=dwejll2sWWkEFEPaJ61ZG37nS+0wsknyH3eEyc2Ahv8=; b=gxMzN/i67+UpBYDxa7n+RcP9Bea6zAw07fapuk6YuNvLHFzW1o5cM4iRmbgYx27vrG O8VZH9yNviGrZcMqEiGetdRq7B/tidtmIyhHRDZJ+x74nUPiX6smtzqpw4xSUz6CpnAH 9DwJTU4FjGh0FCZd4PcydtVo/lqIUsL7GUB7Zm4QfzJppT6r6VE3vePletGG7Lj851S1 GbRXn3hPQOif4KJOCyLMBIiZyxNAlxXYRBne4YwZUgyFq8CQZae7qVIFVo0w8VPx1ekT YWYQa85s4Z4XD3A6eMWG+1Dg462viEBlVpirSa3KMQSf1HHu3x6wsomPMCpA2aB+Ayxl eCJQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tJQOE292uBPF/PigGRKp651f+fP9/TP7FCt7JSPjf0wh8gw6qyGFgLnTlwyRxvANFQGzM8oKQ7cUWAePA== X-Received: by 10.157.38.97 with SMTP id a88mr924774otb.47.1464938349782; Fri, 03 Jun 2016 00:19:09 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: fluca1978@gmail.com Received: by 10.157.2.67 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Jun 2016 00:19:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Luca Ferrari Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 09:19:09 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: gunAIMHwMJ9aiKo6FGKmYNWmIjs Message-ID: Subject: Re: rsync or git backups? To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2016 07:19:11 -0000 On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 4:49 PM, jungle Boogie wrote: > On 1 June 2016 at 01:35, Luca Ferrari wrote: >> >> Any suggestion? > > > Obviously the first choice is zfs snapshots but if you're like me, > that's not a choice. > > I'd recommend something like borg backup: > https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/ > http://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ Thanks to all. Effectively ZFS is a kind of too much for my poor USB disks, also because I would like to have them a little more portable than ZFS will give me (I'm not aware of any commercial media center able to read from a ZFS storage). I will give a try to rsnapshot and borg. Luca