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How long do you keep your backups? (lemmy.zip)
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Right now I'm creating a nightly restic snapshot of my server on borgbase and on some spare drives, and keeping the snapshots forever. There's a ton of daily churn in my data though, between databases and logs and other files that don't constitute 'real data' but might be needed to restore the app.

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[–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Daily for 10 days, 4 weekly, 4 monthly.

That covers me from broken updates, generally.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (7 children)

    came to say something like this but not sure why you would do daily for 10 days. Your doing weeklys so why not 7. I would rather increase the monthly to 7 or do 6 bi monthly and keep a yearly.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    Your doing weeklys so why not 7

    They are all daily backups, those schedules I pointed out are for pruning. And I don't understand the question... How would keeping 7 instead of 10 dailies help me?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    because your last weekly would be a max of 7 days out

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  • [–] 0 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    How am I going to restore day 8, day 9, or day 10 backups if I only keep 7 days?

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