[Borgbackup] Backup big volumes to multiple USB drives

Marian Beermann public at enkore.de
Mon Dec 10 07:19:44 EST 2018


tar(1) and split(1) might be what you're looking for. Note that you can
concatenate tar files to combine them (see tar --ignore-zeros).

Cheers, Marian

Am 10.12.18 um 09:29 schrieb shacky:
> Hi.
> I have some big volumes (>10 Tb) which I need to backup on multiple
> external USB drives (8 Tb each).
> 
> These volumes are incremental or something like "round robin": no files
> are deleted but files are only added to them. When we have no space on
> them, old data is moved to some offline volumes but they have not to be
> considered as "deleted".
> 
> I am wondering if Borg Backup could help me to backup these files. It
> should work with a single connected USB drive but remembering what was
> backupped to other USB drives (which cannot be connected in the same
> time). And if I look for a file it should tell me to what USB drive it
> was backupped so I can connect it and take it out.
> 
> Could you help me?
> If Borg Backup is not a solution for this, could you advise me another
> solution, please?
> 
> Thank you very much!
> Bye
> 
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