Comment on Backing up across machines with low free space?
redlemace@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
To compress you need diskspace. Simple as that. Three daily from 40 Gb in small files? By thor, sure hope you think incrementals. Have you tried backupc?
But honestly, it’s worth -snd most reliable- to invest in a new bigger disk to solve the problem instead of working your way around it.
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 4 hours ago
It’s a VPS and I don’t want to increase the monthly cost - in fact I want to decrease it by disabling the backups the hoster offers. Machine B is my NAS at home.
Of course, incremental would be preferable, but I’m not sure how that would work in that constellation.
redlemace@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Do you have unlimited data transfer with your vps? Transferring 40Gb three times each and every day is quite some traffic.
Why not host it at home then? I bought a used lenovo thinkcenter (m720q on top of my head) for 75€ It uses only 35 watt, it has 750 Gb storage and I only added some RAM.
I pay 1€ per month for a fixed public ip to avoid ddns. My NAS is at a family member (over vpn to home) for offsite backups.
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 3 hours ago
I do have a someserver, but it’s a fediverse instance with around 60 monthly active users, and the server provider is more reliable than my ISP at home, so any downtime has a bit more impact. There’s also another admin who needs access. Not saying never, but at the moment I’m just looking for a different backup solution, moving the whole thing has some more aspects to consider.
The data would only be copied once a day. I have to check the limits though, good point.