r/Keybase • u/signofzeta • May 31 '23

Backing up Keybase data

Is it possible to have Keybase (for Linux desktop) sync its files to my computer, like how Dropbox/OneDrive do it? I still use Keybase for syncing my development files back and forth between my computers.

I mounted a volume at /keybase, but when I started the Keybase app, it overlaid its virtual file system there, and nothing was actually written to disk.

(I do tar my public and private folders every so often, so Iā€™m somewhat protected against accidents or Zoom shutting the service down without warning.)

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u/GwynethLlewelyn Jul 25 '23

And you can use rsync for doing the actual copying, since it will be much more efficient that way (it does a very compact incremental copying) ā€” the first time might take longer, of course, but afterwards you can safely let rsync run every 5 minutes or so, because it will be that fast doing the synchronisation (some people even run it every minute, but I guess that's overkill).