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  • cizra@lemm.ee
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    14 days ago
    1. Make a snapshot with LVM2 or BTRFS to ensure consistency, delete the snapshot after backing up.
    2. You can back up files as root (I do) or a dedicated user that has perms to all the relevant data via groups.
    3. Rsync can preserve users either numerically or by name.
    4. Rsync can do incremental backups via hardlinks (you’ll have a complete view of all files in each snapshot, but only pay the storage when files actually change).