#2557 Issue closed: Feature: BACKUP=fsarchiver¶
Labels: enhancement, needs sponsorship, external tool,
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DEvil0000 opened issue at 2021-01-22 17:47:¶
I think rear is lacking some option between raw, rsync and all those
advanced things. I loved to use fsarchiver which does something like a
filesystem backup (including parmission and such) and compresses that
full backup into a single file. That comes in quite handy when you want
a full backup but not raw since you have a lot of unused space. Due to
the compression and less lookup effort it is at least in some cases
better then using rsync. For example on a Raspberry PI thats in my
eyes the optimal method.
Issue #413 would also integrate perfectly with it as with most other methods. Its a good choice to get a in time consistent snapshot of the stored files without stopping services. Please consider implementing this as well.
gdha commented at 2021-01-25 13:41:¶
@DEvil0000 Supposingly you are referring to
https://www.fsarchiver.org/ - The pages
are mentioning SystemRescue is a perfect match, sure enough, ReaR is
also a valid candidate to add fsarchiver binary to copy with the
rescue image and you could use the BACKUP=EXTERNAL setting in the
/etc/rear/local.conf file.
Furthermore, I understand your reasoning behind the scenes, but it would
add an extra layer of complexity I think (my opninion may vary of course
with yours or others).
The case you are refering to RaspberryPI - perhaps useful yes, but ReaR
has not yet be ported to aarch64 (in its full extends) and not sure ReaR
has a clear understanding how to handle the boot mechanism on aarch64. I
do know there was some effort in the past, but I don't think it was
completed.
github-actions commented at 2021-05-24 02:43:¶
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