On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 2:48 PM ~Stack~ <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> On 8/9/21 10:48 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> > She wants an incremental backup system that uses a removable external
> > drive, and that she can initiate (not time interval daemon driven), and
> > that allows her to "find" a deleted file that she needs -- but for which
> > she looks both by the file name, but also by scanning content when
> > necessary (including viewing an image file such as JPEG or a video file
> > such as MP4).
>
> Rsnapshot allows for you to run manually whenever you want.
>
> As for finding files, it is just any utility you want to use to look at
> the filesystem.

One of my favorites was to swap the drives out for somewhere offsite
and enable Kerberos based NFS4, rsync over SSH, or raw rsync for
access to different backups with distinct privileges as needed, It
made "Let me get a copy of my home directory from last month" much,
much easier.