Hello, I plan to use restic to backup my files to B2, and would like to ask whether it is possible to do that, but when I delete files locally, these files should still be kept on the cloud. In other words, I don’t want a “mirror” scheme here. Local storage is finite but cloud storage is not, and i…

This is exactly what restic is all about. You back up your stuff, and each time a snapshot is created to represent what you backed up at that point in time. When you delete files locally it only affects backups you make later on - the previous snapshots will still keep the data that’s in them. They …

Thanks for the quick reply @rawtaz ! So, if I have fileA locally, take a backup that creates snapshotA, then delete fileA from my computer and take another backup snapshotB, then fileA will only exist in snapshotA, as long as I haven’t used “forget” along with “prune”? What if I want to recover it?…

Exactly how you describe it, yes. If you want to restore files from your backups, you can do it in different ways. If you can install FUSE on your system, you can mount the repository and get a regular directory tree with all your snapshots and their contents, so you can copy it like any other file…

I should also add that forget is the command that removes the snapshot from the history. The prune command just cleans out the data that was unique to that snapshot. What I mean to highlight is that I would not count on it being possible to retrieve a snapshot/files when you have run forget but did…

I see! But then again, I have to know what I’m looking for. In case I’m looking for some photos I might haven taken about a year ago when I went to Spain, but don’t remember any filenames, or dir names, then the restic approach might not be very appropriate. Maybe rclone would be a better fit. I th…

Let me be very very clear; restic and rclone are two different types of software. Please do not consider them the same, and especially do not consider rclone a backup software that can do the things restic can on that topic. Rclone is great software, but not purposed for backing up in the sense that…

Great answer @rawtaz ! Thanks for being so patient and exhaustive! One of the most basic methods of backup is having an external hard drive, which you plug in every now and then, and copy to it everything valuable. I might choose to overwrite my firefox profile folder (bookmarks, saved passwords etc…

Sounds to me like what you are describing is simply another disk to store your stuff on (having them spread out over multiple disks). You want the cloud thingie to be a second hard drive, effectively. It’s of course not backup, since if you delete the file(s) from where they’re stored, they’ll be l…

I’d like to add another thought: With rclone/rsync, you won’t notice when your hard drive stops being reliable. With restic on the other hand, you can run restic check and it’ll tell you when the data returned from the disc has been modified.

A feature that many will not appreciate until its too late. :stuck_out_tongue:

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