1. I like Incremental backup methodology, but it needs frequent full backups (as i understand from “grandfather,father,son” method), How to have version control where i only create full-backup only once ?

  2. and I can choose to Delete changes older than 1 month.

  3. How to Only backup Select Data, like only personal data,

  4. and a “Ghost” for other data. Ghost is only filename and it’s metadata (also folder structure). Data selected for Ghost is from internet which can be downloaded.

Related

  1. “file change tracker” to see summary of what files are moved/deleted/renamed.

  2. “File History” where I see previous version of files.

Software ?

  1. Seems like https://restic.net/ is best as it’s enterprise trusted works on all OS,

How do I set it up like I described in the Original Post.

I have a external disk and internal HDD, I want to backup select data, to a 3rd disk, both backup to the same disk, both separately backup-ed.

There is also -

  1. Pika (https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/pika-backup , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W30wzKVwCHo) ,
  2. https://www.borgbackup.org/ ,
  3. Rsync - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync
  4. RClone - https://github.com/rclone/rclone , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKCIi-NxJEo
  5. https://www.urbackup.org/download.html (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXGVzMUsuE4 , https://christitus.com/urbackup/)
  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Most backup software has incremental backup and retention policies. It will create a first full backup, then merge incrementals into the full based on your retention policy.

    Retaining folder structure and file metadata only is unusual. You’ll want to export that info in some other way and exclude those items from backup.