[Borgbackup] Multi-machine backup when there's some data overlap

[Panayotis Katsaloulis]

I personally backup more than one computer which have mostly common files
for a long time without any problem.

The only "issue" is that every machine before backing up it needs to fetch
the other machines indices. It takes some time but it is acceptable.


Στις Τρί, 16 Οκτ 2018, 3:36 μ.μ. ο χρήστης Panayotis <terataki at gmail.com>
έγραψε:

> I personally backup more than one computer which have mostly common files
> for a long time without any problem.
>
> The only "issue" is that every maching before backing up it needs to fetch
> the other machines indices. It takes some time but it is acceptable.
>
> Στις Τρί, 16 Οκτ 2018, 10:14 π.μ. ο χρήστης Oon-Ee Ng <
> ngoonee.talk at gmail.com> έγραψε:
>
>> Apologies in advance if I get terminology wrong, I've used rsnapshot for
>> a decade or more and am only now looking to upgrade my backup process.
>>
>> Having said that, what's the best way to approach multi-machine backup?
>> Obviously the most straightforward way is to initialize at least one borg
>> backup per machine. However if I read that correctly this will create
>> isolated repositories, which cannot take advantage of any data overlap.
>>
>> Just to avoid this being an XY problem, my core use case is having
>> multiple computers (Linux and Windows via cygwin) backing up to a single
>> backup host using borgbackup. Some of these machines have duplicated data
>> (especially in terms of photos/videos, since these are personal/family
>> machines), so there should be significant space savings from being keeping
>> them in one repository, if that is at all possible.
>>
>> Thanks in advace!
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