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by ThinkBeat 701 days ago
A bit of a side note and a bit of old man reveal, it would be nifty to have the backup system write the snapshots to cd/dvd/bluray disk.

I remember working in a company that had a robot WORM system. It would grab a disc, it would be processed, take it out, place it among the archives. If a restore as needed the robot would find the backup, and read off the data.

I never worked directly on the system, and I seem to remember there was a window that the system could keep track of (naturally) but older disks were stored off site somewhere for however long that window was.

(Everything was replicated to a fully 100% duplicate system geographically highly separated from the production system.

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AFAIK timeshift can use any mount. I tried a USB stick, but it was too slow. Now I'm experimenting with a partition on a second drive.