Was looking for a good backup system for my Rocky 9 system drive. Thinking something along the lines of Time Machine for Mac, that incrementally does file backups throughout the day. Ideally would even love something that could produce a bootable clone should the original drive go down.
I currently have my system drive as a RAID 1 of two nvme drives, but that has its own inherent issues should there be certain types of failure. Given the work I do, just need a way to bounce back as soon as possible without having to do a whole Linux reinstall, etc. Ideally would be a local solution, but a cloud element might be nice as well. 1-2TB I’m assuming would be sufficient.
Was looking into Timeshift, Deja Dup, etc. But was wondering if anyone had any real world experience with software in a Flame environment that they’d recommend.
Might not be the best idea to incrimentally backup running databases with a Arq/TimeMachine setup. Seen that fail out a few times to the artist’s dismay.
Just focusing on the Flame element, you could use a cronjob calling a simple script to stop S+W and then back up the needed paths in /opt/Autodesk. Could even piggyback off that Flame archive script I made you, and kick off after the last session of the day.
To address the system drive, keeping it simple, you could schedule a recurring dd to a spare drive.
yet again, Central S+W Project server for the win here. Running it as a VM on something like Proxmox gets you free differential, non-intruptive backups.