I am setting up a back up of my OpenSUSE Leap server and am unsure whether to include the /.snapshots directory, which contain the snapper system snapshots. Any thoughts or links? I tried a web search about this, but didn’t find anything that seemed to provide an answer.
I wouldn’t. They contain duplicated data… I would rather create differential backups on every snapper event and push those to a remote, for instance with Borg.
Thanks! So that means that I should keep a back up of the snapshots in some way or another then. I’m using restic for backups. I’ll try to think of how I would do this. Thanks again.
Well… You can either handle the backups completely separate from snapper and those snapshots, or you just create a differential using only the just created snapshot afterwards.
I wouldn’t try to backup all snapshots everytime, since that is just needless duplication. Snapshots are more of a convenices it something is accidentally deleted or you want to revert without restoring from the backups.
Thanks again. On further consideration I may be OK since restic only backs up changed data and also deduplicates it.