History: TRIM and Syncthing for automated offsite backups

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

• How to install Syncthing on ClearOS

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.