[rear-users] rear with Borg on USB

[Vladimir Gozora]

In theory, you MAYBE could use OUTPUT=USB and point your BORGBACKUP_HOST 
to localhost. This might work but I've never tried it.

Best regards

V.

On Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Sascha Marcel Hacker wrote:

> But if you set up borg, you have to set the borg repo host.
> It does not saves the backup on the USB device,it only saves the environment for rear.
> 
> See: https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/master/usr/share/rear/conf/examples/borg-example.conf
> 
> Nice software, quite good for big envirments with many PCs.
> I thinks its also nice for little home PC envirments to backup all data.
> But in my case my home server is the biggst server in the house and its manage all my DHCP and DNS settings. (i know not the best solution but
> very simple to manage and it save much energy)
> If this one is down, i hove no ssh server to recover this maschine.
> The only way is to setup a new standalone backup server or every time setup one pc as server wenn the mainserver is down.
> An the other hand the home server is also a backupserver for the windows maschine with AD and roaming profiles.
> 
> 
> 2018-02-05 16:13 GMT+01:00 Robert Owens <rowens at fdrinnovation.com>:
>       In local.conf you can specify OUTPUT=USB (the default is OUTPUT=ISO).
>
>       You might also want to check out backuppc.  Although it doesn't have support yet in ReaR, it only requires an ssh server and rsync
>       (or tar) in order to do a restore.  It does file pooling, which is similar to the deduplication that borg does, but it does it on
>       entire files rather than chunks.
>
>       On 2/4/2018 11:15 PM, Sascha Marcel Hacker wrote:
>       Hi, im am new at rear and also borg.
>       I've been looking for a while now to find a good backup solution for my home storage server.
>       It is a 5x2TB Raid system with ubuntu, with all of my dokuments, musik and family pictures I want to use it on.
>       A backup solution with dedub, incremental, compression and with no down time is what i need.
>       My previous backup soulution was a hotswap hdd for the system and a external hdd for the pictures and documents, all with tar
>       and gzip.
>
>       But now i am looking for a new solution, something like acronis backup.
>       I compared many backup programs like rsync, zbackup, bacula, ... and all this has brought me to borg.
>       The only thing thats missing is a disaster solution, because I like to tinker with the system.
>       So i bought a new external 8tb hdd to safe the whole system on.
>
>       In another forum i heard of rear and the option to choose borg as the backup backend.
>       But for now i only found an example config with a network server. Is there any way to setup rear to use it with usb?
>
>       Sascha
> 
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