Re: [bitfolk] What should I back up?

Hi Paul, On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:59:56AM +0000, Paul Dart wrote: I do tend to back this up but I am careful to make sure I have temporary and scratch directories where I can dump files. We all need to find somewhere to put a large file from time to time, or unpack some large archive. Then forget about it for a few hours and it gets backed up and stays in there for 6 months. So I'll have a ~/tmp and a few other things and exclude them with: - tmp/ in ~/.bitfolk-rsync-filter I know you IRC from your VPS so what about IRC logs? If you're using irssi then every time there's anything said in any channel you'll get a whole new copy of the unrotated IRC log in its entirety, kept in the backups for 6 months. Again be careful about leaving large files lying around. You might want to look at what you are putting in /root and think about if there is somewhere else more appropriate. /root shouldn't really have anything in it except for perhaps /root/.ssh/authorized_keys if you have some things logging in as root by public key. Binaries and scripts that only root will run make more sense in /sbin, /usr/sbin, or /usr/local/sbin. Very likely you don't want to be backing up /var/log and /var/cache. I don't backup /. I've had a look at your backup usage at https://panel.bitfolk.com/backups/ and your differential usage bounces around quite a lot. If I were you I'd mount weekly.1 and weekly.2 and do an rsnapshot-diff between them as described at: https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Backups#Is_there_any_easy_way_to_see_which_f… Especially if you do the sort thing to show the biggest changes I bet you will quickly find what is taking up a lot of space and isn't worth backing up. If you're backing up /var and /home and haven't done any excluding then my hunch is you are burning space on copies of unrotated IRC and other logs. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting