I’m trying to find a good method of making periodic, incremental backups. I assume that the most minimal approach would be to have a Cronjob run rsync periodically, but I’m curious what other solutions may exist.

I’m interested in both command-line, and GUI solutions.

  • fckreddit
    652·
    1 year ago

    I don’t. I lose my data like all the cool (read: fool) kids.

  • inex@feddit.de
    33·
    1 year ago

    Timeshift is a great tool for creating incremental backups. Basically it’s a frontend for rsync and it works great. If needed you can also use it in CLI

  • mariom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    Is it just me or the backup topic is recurring each few days on !linux@lemmy.ml and !selfhosted@lemmy.world?

    To be on topic as well - I use restic+autorestic combo. Pretty simple, I made repo with small script to generate config for different machines and that’s it. Storing between machines and b2.

    • CrypticCoffeeEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      It is a critical one. Maybe needs to be part of an FAQ with link to discussion.

    • grueEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It hasn’t succeeded in nagging me to properly back up my data yet, so I think it needs to be discussed even more.

  • PlexSheep@feddit.de
    11·
    1 year ago

    I have a bash script that backs all my stuff up to my Homeserver with Borg. My servers have cronjobs that run similar scripts.

  • kittyrunningnoise@lemm.ee
    9·
    1 year ago

    I like rsnapshot, run from a cron job at various useful intervals. backups are hardlinked and rotated so that eventually the disk usage reaches a very slowly growing steady state.

  • thegreenguy@kbin.social
    9·
    1 year ago

    Pika Backup (GUI for borgbackup) is a great app for backups. It has all the features you might expect from backup software and “just works”.

    • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
      0·
      1 year ago

      I really like Pika Backup’s UI. It’s simple enough that my mom is able to backup her data to a usb drive too.

    • SALT@lemmy.my.idEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Back In times

      Isn’t timeshift have same purpose, or it’s just matter of preference?

      • NoXPhasma@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yes, it is the same purpose, kinda. But timeshift runs as a cron and allows for an easy rollback, while I use BIT for manual backups.

  • elscallr@lemmy.world
    91·
    1 year ago

    Exactly like you think. Cronjob runs a periodic rsync of a handful of directories under /home. My OS is on a different drive that doesn’t get backed up. My configs are in an ansible repository hosted on my home server and backed up the same way.

  • Jajcus@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    Kopia or Restic. Both do incremental, deduplicated backups and support many storage services.

    Kopia provides UI for end user and has integrated scheduling. Restic is a powerfull cli tool thatlyou build your backup system on, but usually one does not need more than a cron job for that. I use a set of custom systems jobs and generators for my restic backups.

    Keep in mind, than backups on local, constantly connected storage is hardly a backup. When the machine fails hard, backups are lost ,together with the original backup. So timeshift alone is not really a solution. Also: test your backups.