• Zeroc00l@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    Novice homelaber here, is this just a case of apt update & upgrade or is there different commands for security and kernel updates? Also what’s your preferred backup/restore software? Thanks!

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      Nope it’s just apt update & upgrade. Iirc apt tells you when the kernel was updated and needs a reboot as well.

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          I configured restic once, forget about it and saved my files because it was making backups since forever. Saved me once.

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          Oh, never heard about it. A quick research showed me that restic is a very viable solution. Thanks for mentioning it, I added it to my comment.

          While researching, I also came across a fancy WebUI, which is mostly what non-CLI users want: backrest

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            I am using restic and backrest on my yunohost server and I really like it! It is really set up and forget for me. Only the uploads to backblaze b2 are still triggered manually. Also did a full recovery from the backblaze repo (downloaded locally) without problems.

            Also just now heard about Zerobyte it is a backup solution based on restic and looks very good!

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      Kernel updates are usually held back and need to be selected manually. E.g. apt-get install linux-image-amd64.

      I prefer rsync for private backups and employ bareos in my company for all servers.

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      I’m not the person you asked the question of. I’m a fellow novice homelaber.

      I use Kopia to backup my data folders and Docker container data. Works really well. The project for this weekend is to set offsite backups to be uploaded to iDrive.

      When I update I use this:

      sudo apt update && \ sudo apt upgrade -y && \ sudo apt full-upgrade -y && \ flatpak update -y 2>/dev/null; \ sudo apt autoremove -y && \ sudo apt autoclean && \ sudo journalctl --vacuum-time=7d