Making offline backups of a Linux machine using Backblaze.
UPDATE: 20191229 - Added how to rotate out the oldest backups.
As frequent readers may or may not remember, I rebuilt my primary server last year, and in the process set up a fairly hefty RAID-5 array (24 terabytes) to store data. As one might reasonably expect, backing all of that stuff up is fairly difficult. I'd need to buy enough external hard drives to fit a copy of everything on there, plus extra space to store [incremental backups]((https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_backup) for some length of time. Another problem is that both Leandra and the backup drives would …
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