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Message   August Abolins    Arelor   backup for windows pc?   September 20, 2023
 8:18 PM *  

Hello Arelor!

** On Wednesday 20.09.23 - 18:19, Arelor wrote to August Abolins:

 A> I assume you don't want a full system backup, but just to
 A> backup some user files.

Correct.  I just want to copy a few key directories of files,  
maybe even regularly.


 A> I'd go with rclone. You can use rclone to place your
 A> backups on local hard drives, ftp servers, Nextcloud
 A> servers... it supports so many backends it is crazy.

I see that.  SFTP would be my approach.  The usage looks  
confusing though.


 A> It also supports encrypted backups. Not a plug and play
 A> solution, but not hard either.

I haven't noticed the encrypted part in the docs yet.


 A> gpg for backups if a bit ugly. I would only do it if
 A> processing backup images (this is, you have a backup
 A> program that produces a big badass 250 GB archive with all
 A> your stuff, and then you pipe it into gpg).

I am really liking the idea of piping gpgtar to winscp at this  
point.

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