Right now I'm creating a nightly restic snapshot of my server on borgbase and on some spare drives, and keeping the snapshots forever. There's a ton of daily churn in my data though, between databases and logs and other files that don't constitute 'real data' but might be needed to restore the app.

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[–] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

As long as I have space. My backups are on dedicated drives, and as they run out of space the old ones are deleted.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 hours ago

    I guess OPs question is more about what makes you comfortable.

    Is your drive only big enough for 2 backups or is it big enough for hundreds? If it was half that size would you still be happy with the number of backups? A quarter of the size?

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