History: TRIM and Syncthing for automated offsite backups
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Use case: I have a Tiki on ClearOS. and I want automatic backups of that Tiki to my local computer for safekeeping. These are high level instructions as to how to combine TRIM and Syncthing to do so.
Setup TRIM
Install trim at /root/trim/ as per https://doc.tiki.org/TRIM#How_to_download_and_use
Configure TRIM to backup your Tiki site
https://doc.tiki.org/TRIM#make_instance
https://doc.tiki.org/TRIM#make_backup
Set up automatic backups
https://doc.tiki.org/TRIM#To_setup_automated_backups
Install Syncthing
On the server
On your laptop
- Install Syncthing for your local computer: https://docs.syncthing.net/intro/getting-started.html#installing
Setup Syncthing
- Connect the devices and setup shared folders as per https://docs.syncthing.net/intro/getting-started.html
The TRIM folder to backup is /root/trim/backup/archive
Make sure Syncthing automatically restarts when you reboot so that you have unattended automatic backups.