rsbackup tutorial availability

[Bo Berglund]

On Sun, 12 Sep 2021 17:52:34 -0500, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:

>Good afternoon,
>
>I would like to set up a backup for my system that will store the files 
>necessary file to allow me to do a restore if my upgrade from 18.04 LTS 
>to 20.04 LTS should fail to work properly. I also plan on using the 
>package for my periodic backups.
>
>My system runs on a single hard drive (all ubuntu linux) /dev/sda1 at 
>mount point /
>
>The target for the backup is a directory on a Western Digital My Book 
>drive named polar.
>
>I have installed rsbackup is there a tutorial for setting up a basic 
>configuration file?
>
>Thanks,
>Jay

Strange that this thread deals with the exact problem I am struggling with...
I also asked here:
How to backup before a release upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS server?

And I got several answers including a suggestion to use rsbackup.
Could you say *how* you installed it?

The way I have seen involves downloading files from www.greenend.org.uk and
using those rather than installing with apt, which I normally do in order to
make sure the package stays updated via apt.

Furthermore, I need the target for storing the backups to be an nfs mounted
share on a Synology NAS on my network and I could not find any good advice on
how to do that...
In the manual in section "2.2.1 Backup Storage" they discuss this but I do not
understand how to use a NFS mount...

Are you going to use a USB connected removable drive as target instead? If so
how is that drive formatted? FAT32, NTFS or ext4?
I believe that there are differences depending on the drive format for rsbackup.


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden