/g/ - Good evening, my dear /g/irls! I have one particular directory on my hard drive that contains about a terabyte of some utmost important content (images, minecraft worlds, porn, notes, books, zines, diaries, websites backups, videos, scripts, etc). I also

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the hacker known as 4chan 06/28/2024 (Fri) 15:37 [Preview] No. 159 [X] >>176 >>177 >>179

Good evening, my dear /g/irls!
I have one particular directory on my hard drive that contains about a terabyte of some utmost important content (images, minecraft worlds, porn, notes, books, zines, diaries, websites backups, videos, scripts, etc). I also have several other HDDs and SSD lying around. Now I would like to back up that directory from the current HDD to all the other drives.
Also, sometimes modify the directory contents (delete, add and [b]EDIT[\b] files).
Friends, please advice me a software to make and synchronize this kind of backups. I would connect the backup drives once a month to sync manually, so I don't need any kind of storage array, RAID or something. Also I am too dumb to google it on my own.

the hacker known as 4chan 04/19/2025 (Sat) 15:33 [Preview] No.175 [X] del

If you want an easy, restorable backup with points in time with external drive rotation, you can just use Windows Backup (in Control Panel) or Time Machine on macOS.

If you just want copies of your data which you can straight up access and you’re feeling nerdier, robocopy with /MIR switch (Windows) or rsync (macOS/Linux) will work just fine too. Make sure you’re using NTFS (Windows), APFS (macOS) or btrfs (Linux) and you can additionally take snapshots of the filesystem to give you points in time.

I hope this helps :)

the hacker known as 4chan 04/19/2025 (Sat) 22:30 [Preview] No.176 [X] del

>>159
rsync is excellent for this, I use it for my backups with the -Rruv options.

the hacker known as 4chan 04/20/2025 (Sun) 03:16 [Preview] No.177 [X] del

>>159
If you want to sync you can use synchthing. Its really easy to setup, and keeps stuff live up to date. Doesn't have built in backups to my knowledge, but the files will be synced and you could take a snapshot of that every so often.

the hacker known as 4chan 04/20/2025 (Sun) 04:13 [Preview] No.179 [X] del

>>159
borgbackup

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