Since 2021 I switched from backup2l to el-backup because I don’t love it any more.
My backup2l configuration
- My backups must be available from everywhere. This is why I use public cloud services (Russian Yandex Disk or Swiss pCloud) that can be mounted in linux using standard open-source utilities. (I will probably switch to freenet at some point.)
- I assume that cloud system administrators are my enemies working for Evil Corporations and Governments hunting for my precious files; so no unencrypted files are allowed in any cloud.
- File names as well as their modification times is part of my private information that I am not going to reveal.
There are two types of files on my computer:
- Text files which might be edited several times a day. I use this elisp code to synchronize these on different hosts.
- Everything else which is rarely edited.
This concept might not work for
- artists who edit their images as often as I edit my text files, and for
- people using WYSWYG editors like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, or Microsoft PowerPoint on a daily basis. (Thanks god I am not using this kind of software.)
I archive important files using backup2l patched with this patch using this configuration file. (Hopefully some day my patch will be used in the official backup2l release.)