On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 09:31:13AM -0400, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
I nearly chimed in with this option earlier: my backup method is multiple external (spinning) HD drives, some of which are "portable," ie. 2.5". With rsync, full backups are very fast - after the initial synchronization. And with the 2.5" drives, off-site is very easy. I tote one to a friend's place most weekends. The initial cost may seem a bit high, but the capacity is immense (up to 4TB even on 2.5" these days), the backups are easy and fast, and the reliability is excellent.
My backup now is multi-disk raid1 BTRFS, made up of leftover harddisks. I choose BTRFS because of "snapshot" feature. Before, I used to do daily, weekly, and monthly backups (rsync), which resulted in 3 separate copies. Now, I do daily backup, and then take snapshot daily, weekly, and monthy. -- William