Recently I’ve had to re-engineer my whole backup strategy because of a looming hardware issue on my old backup server. Since I am operating servers at Hetzner, I purchased some backup space there and based my new system around their available system. The new strategy consists of several key components:

• Mounting a remote directory via sshfs
• Ensuring the remote mountpoint is always available using autofs
• Creating a loopback filesystem on the remote storage
• Incremental rsync snapshots using my Hactar backup script

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