rsbackup tutorial availability

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 12:01:39PM +0200, Bo Berglund wrote:
> And I got several answers including a suggestion to use rsbackup.
> Could you say *how* you installed it?

Just install it with apt (or your preferred package management
interface) from Ubuntu.  The upstream documentation understandably
recommends installing it from upstream-provided sources, but there's no
need to do that when it's already packaged in your distribution.

> Furthermore, I need the target for storing the backups to be an nfs mounted
> share on a Synology NAS on my network and I could not find any good advice on
> how to do that...
> In the manual in section "2.2.1 Backup Storage" they discuss this but I do not
> understand how to use a NFS mount...

This isn't specific to rsbackup at all.  (While I've used NFS a
reasonable amount, I've never used a Synology NAS so don't know what
particular details might be involved with doing an NFS mount from it.
Perhaps consult documentation for your NAS?)

> Are you going to use a USB connected removable drive as target instead? If so
> how is that drive formatted? FAT32, NTFS or ext4?

Don't use FAT32 to back up a Linux system; it won't preserve file
metadata correctly and (if it manages to work at all) you'll have a mess
when you try to restore from it.  I wouldn't recommend NTFS for this
either.  ext4 is fine.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]