What would be the best way/ strategy to implement vastly different backup scenarios on a single computer

[goebbe]

For the backup of my computer I want to use

• three different repositories (local NAS, remote backup sever, attachable USB-drive)
• each with different sources / paths
• each with different schedules

Reasoning/ backup idea:

• Do hourly backups of almost everything to my local NAS (large bandwidth, cheap storage)
• Do daily backups of most important selection of folder to a remote backup server (for redundancy, low bandwidth, slow and expensive)
• Do manual backups of almost everything when attaching the USB-disk, e.g. once per month (for redundancy, easy to store the USBdrive at a different place)

My main point is, that for each repository, I would like to have different sources and different schedules.
My understanding is that, for now, Vykar (0.15.0) does not support this. (If I am not wrong)

What would be the best way to approach such a scenario with Vykar (in the future)?
I see two main possible strategies:

1. Allow and use several config.yaml files (e.g. one config.yaml per repository)
   or
2. Allow per-repository schedules (and per-repository sources)
   • e.g. allow schedule: enable: false for the USB-repo?

Afterthought:
Using labels for repositories combined with labels for sources already allows the use of different sources per repository:
vykar backup --repo local --source docs
So it is only the possibility to allow schedulers per repository, that is missing (to allow the described setup)?

[m3nu]

Did you look at the repos setting for sources? (from https://vykar.borgbase.com/configuration#sources)

sources:
  - label: "docs"
    path: "/home/user/documents"
    exclude: ["*.tmp", ".cache/**"]
    # exclude_if_present: [".nobackup", "CACHEDIR.TAG"]
    # one_file_system: true
    # git_ignore: false
    repos: ["main"]                  # Only back up to this repo (default: all)

For the schedule I don't think you can override it. But I may be wrong.

[goebbe]

Wouldn't it make sense to use the repository as a main anchor?

Currently:

repositories:
  - label: 'main'
    url: /media/drive/repo

sources:
  - label: "docs"
    path: "/home/user/documents"
    repos: ["main"]          

Example: Instead of putting repos[label] to the sources, would it make sense to put the sources[lable] to the repos?
As follows:

repositories:
  - label: 'main'
    url: /media/drive/repo
    sources: ["docs"]

sources:
  - label: "docs"
    path: "/home/user/documents"

[goebbe]

I think, Vykar does not allow several "labelled" schedulers, right now.
Labelled schedulers would allow flexible configurations.

A config with labelled schedulers could then look as follows:

repositories:
  - label: 'USB-drive'
    url: /media/drive/repo
    schedule: ["usb-schedule"]    
  - label: "NAS"
    url: 'sftp://user@192.168.0.5/backup/vykar_repo'
    schedule: ["NAS-schedule"]    

sources:
  - label: "docs"
    path: "/home/user/documents"
    repos: ["USB-drive","NAS"]      
  - label: "photos"
    path: "/home/user/photos"
    path: "/home/user/shared/photos"
    repos: ["NAS"]      

schedule:
  - label: "usb-schedule"
    enable: false
  - label: "NAS-schedule"
    enable: true
    every: "1h"

Or in a repo-centric config style, the same could be as follows:

repositories:
  - label: 'USB-drive'
    url: /media/drive/repo
    sources: ["docs"]                           
    schedule: ["usb-schedule"]
  - label: "NAS"
    url: 'sftp://user@192.168.0.5/backup/vykar_repo'
    sources: ["docs","photos"]
    schedule: ["NAS-schedule"]

sources:
  - label: "docs"
    path: "/home/user/documents"
  - label: "photos"
    path: "/home/user/photos"
    path: "/home/user/shared/photos"

schedule:
  - label: "usb-schedule"
    enable: false
  - label: "NAS-schedule"
    enable: true
    every: "1h"

[m3nu]

Wouldn't it make sense to use the repository as a main anchor?

I looked into this when making the decision and there was some minor benefit of the current way. Don't remember it though and practically there isn't much benefit either way.

[goebbe]

I think both ways would work fine.
In the same line, one could also add repos: to labelled schedulers - if that makes more sense.

repositories:
  - label: 'USB-drive'
    url: /media/drive/repo
  - label: "NAS"
    url: 'sftp://user@192.168.0.5/backup/vykar_repo'

sources:
  - label: "docs"
    path: "/home/user/documents"
    repos: ["USB-drive","NAS"]      
  - label: "photos"
    path: "/home/user/photos"
    path: "/home/user/shared/photos"
    repos: ["NAS"]      

schedule:
  - label: "no schedule"
    enable: false
    repos: ["USB-drive"]      
  - label: "hourly schedule"
    enable: true
    every: "1h"
    repos: ["NAS"]