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- cizra@lemm.ee1·4 months ago
- Make a snapshot with LVM2 or BTRFS to ensure consistency, delete the snapshot after backing up.
- You can back up files as root (I do) or a dedicated user that has perms to all the relevant data via groups.
- Rsync can preserve users either numerically or by name.
- 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).