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Re: Backing up a GuixSD system? rsnapshot doesn't seem to like the store


From: Leo Famulari
Subject: Re: Backing up a GuixSD system? rsnapshot doesn't seem to like the store.
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 19:53:48 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23)

On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 04:27:14PM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote:
> <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> >      My normal backup software (rsnapshot) doesn't seem to play
> > terribly well with GuixSD because the software uses hardlinks for it's
> > deduplication, so I'm looking for alternatives (or someone to tell me
> > what needs to happen to get rsnapshot to backup /gnu/store without
> > issue).

You might want to investigate what other things rsnapshot may be failing
to preserve.

> > I'd prefer something that has data deduplication at the very least.

I recommend borg.

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