[Borgbackup] round robin

[richard lucassen]

On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 11:00:15 +0800
Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Ok, I read about borg prune and that's the way to go. It's a
> > different way of thinking about backup (which is not my cup of tea)
> 
> In addition to your primary question (which has been answered), I'd
> just chime in that round robin daily is fairly dangerous in the case
> of ransomware attacks, since there's a possibility all your good
> backups get over-written before you notice it (7 days response time).
> 
> Obviously if that's not important for your particular situation then
> that's fine, but I think for most private internet-exposed systems
> ransomware is likely to be one of the larger threat vectors.

I already discovered the power of the prune command and its options, so
don't you worry!

The backup has been running for a few days now and it seems to work
perfectly well :-)

R.

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