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  • Apr 29, 2022

Configure off-system backups

Overview

This guide uses only tools included in the base configuration of Alpine Linux. It is only suitable for cases where your backups are small, or you have a very reliable network connection. If either of those is not the case you will need to look into restic, borg or other encrypted network backup tools.

Case 1: Encrypted tarball via SSH

Option 1: Pushed to some server

TBD

Option 2: Pulled by some server

TBD

See Also

    • Documentation

    Netboot Alpine Linux using iPXE

    Netboot Alpine with iPXE

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    Add etckeeper

    LBU backups allows restoring to previous state but lack commented history.

    • Documentation

    Add etckeeper git remote for pushing on commit

    Etckeeper is even better stored in an off-system private repository.

    • Documentation

    Add man pages and other on-system docs

    If you have plenty of available RAM and storage, add the online docs.

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  • Feb 11, 2024
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  • Daniel F. Dickinson

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