Unless your friend is skilled at command-line, I strongly suggest he run KopiaUI. The bottleneck with your friend’s backup will not be Kopia, but rather his 1 Mbps connection. For comparison, the same incremental backup with Veeam and Macrium take several minutes for me. This is on modern hardware running SSDs, so if your friend is on older hardware, it will be more slow – but, still, Kopia will be one of the fastest backup solutions you could setup for your friend. Kopia is so quick that I am able to run three concurrent Kopia repos that run at the same time, and it does not impact my performance at all. Jarek can provide more details on exactly how Kopia achieves it (although I am certain Kopia does not use a changed block tracker, which is actually a huge plus in my book), but, in general, scans are very quick with Kopia.Īs example, 800 GB of data (110,000 files in 1,000 folders) takes less than 10 seconds for me. using kopia-ui (if I understood correctly, if kopia-ui is launched at startup, it takes care of generating the snapshot as per the policy set?). I’m also hesitating between creating a batch launched from Windows’ Task Scheduler vs. I’m afraid that for 1.2 TB it will be very long and that it may slow his PC during the scan, so I may split the snapshots into 3 parts of 400 GB each and do one of the 3 snapshots each day.Īny experience on how long it takes to scan 1.2 TB of data before starting the upload of the changes? I assume it will be as kopia is probably not intercepting the system files I/O to figure what has changed since last snapshot… I’m wondering if for each new incremental snapshot, kopia will scan all of my friend’s 1.2 TB of files and then incrementally sftp the changes (like rsync does), or if there is some sort of cache that allows kopia not to rescan all folders. As his internet upload speed is only 1 Mbps, at his place I copied his 1.2 TB of data on a USB drive and now that I’m back home I’m about to generate a first snapshot from this USB drive to a new repo on my server (via my LAN), then I’ll setup kopia on his PC to open the existing repo on my server via sftp through his ADSL connection, so that the next snapshot will only be incremental. To edit root's cron and use the same procedures as above.I’m setting up kopia to backup a friend’s Windows PC to my personal ubuntu server via sftp. Now if you need root permissions on the files you are backing up, type: This cron job will backup my /media/external/Documents every week, on Sunday, at 3:30am to /data/backup # Weekly backup of Documents on external drive to /data/backupģ0 3 * * 0 rsync -av -delete -progress /media/external/Documents /data/backupĮxit the file with a ctrl + X and Y to to save. Now, if the media files are owned by you, from a terminal type:Īnd enter something similar to this, edit according to your needs: So first let's set your default text editor to nano, instead of vi: So I would setup a cron job to use rsync to back it up. Not sure on the ownership on your media files, I'm assuming you the user owns them. Heck with a bit of programming research, you could probably take the output from rsync and generate dbus events that could be tied to a little gui (status icons in pygtk are pretty easy) to show you progress/history of backups when you are logged in to a desktop, but using that solution your backups would continue even when not logged in. If you could somehow weasel out the actual rsync command your backup uses, or, with more patience learn how to reconstruct the same command by reading the rsync man page ("man rsync" at a terminal), you could then schedule it using the gnome-scheduler as you asked, or using the cron daemon, again this would require a bit of research and learning some command line on your part, but would be a very good solution, and work well even if you transferred to a headless media server. I dont know where to start.īy the name, i would assume grsync is a front-end to the command line rsync tool. The task scheduler asks for a command to run at the scheduled time. Is it possible using the gnome-scheduler? I have been using grsync to synch and backup my media library.
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