omv-backup improvement

A few words about the backup plugin.

It works as intended.

I find that the backup file names lack a unique identifier for the backup method.

For example, when backing up with fsarchiver, it is hard to find the corresponding files on the backup media with a regular expression.

For example:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root user 928 Oct 18 00:04 backup-omv-2023-10-18_00-00-01.packages

-rw-r--r-- 1 root user 512 Oct 18 00:04 backup-omv-2023-10-18_00-00-01.grubparts

-rw-r--r-- 1 root user 446 18 Oct 00:04 backup-omv-2023-10-18_00-00-01.grub

-rw-r--r-- 1 root user 4851331251 18 Oct 00:04 backup-omv-2023-10-18_00-00-01.fsa

-rw-r--r-- 1 root user 208 18 Oct 00:04 backup-omv-2023-10-18_00-00-01.fdisk

-rw-r--r-- 1 root user 998 18 Oct 00:04 backup-omv-2023-10-18_00-00-01.blkid

Better would be

backup-omv-fsarch-2023-10-18_00-00-01*

or backup-omv-borg-2023-10-18_00-00-01*

and so on, this would make a selection much easier.

don't it?

edit: Title changed

Thanks for the clarification.

My thought was that I can backup from it to a USB disk and then have the bundle of files created with the same tool.

I have since looked at the backup script and it is clearer to me how it works.

Quote from ryecoaaron

Are you changing the backup method from time to time?

I tried dd and fsarchiver for now. That's why my question come up.

No, if a have time I will the fsarchiver method test and choose it, because it is amazingly fast and encrypted

I know borgbackup and using it for my server.

Just discovered fsarchiver and want to give it a try.

And yes a fulldd might be also valid once a week should be enough

so I'll see how it works

Thank you for inspiration

One last thing.

I have the NAS with a used

HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 server.

This has the peculiarity only from a USB slot can be booted.

So the system disk is sdd1 and the USB stick is sdf1.

There is the target of grup-install

the fsarchiver will probably not recognize this and after a restore of sdd1 a subsequent grub-install will probably be necessary, I guess.

It would be perfect if an image would be created also from sdf1, it is also very small.

But I will have to tinker with that or write a readme for it.