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.
I don’t. I lose my data like all the cool (read: fool) kids.
I too rawdog linux like a chad
Too real
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
I use Borg backup with Vorta for a GUI. Hasn’t let me down yet.
I use PikaBackup which I think uses Borg. Super good looking Gnome app that has worked for me.
Borgmatic is also a great option, cli only.
This is the correct answer.
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.
It is a critical one. Maybe needs to be part of an FAQ with link to discussion.
It hasn’t succeeded in nagging me to properly back up my data yet, so I think it needs to be discussed even more.
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I have a bash script that backs all my stuff up to my Homeserver with Borg. My servers have cronjobs that run similar scripts.
I use Back In Time to backup my important data on an external drive. And for snapshots I use timeshift.
Back In times
Isn’t timeshift have same purpose, or it’s just matter of preference?
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.
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”.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.
I also use it. Big benefit is also that you don‘t need a special software to access your backup.
Been using rsnapshot for years, has saved me more than once
I use
restic(https://restic.net/) which can usercloneto connect to a variety of backends (eg. onedrive, mega, dropbox etc.). Also,resticprofile(https://restic.net/) makes it easier to run (hides flags in the config file). I use it manually but a cron job would be easy to implement (a tutorial is here: https://forum.yunohost.org/t/daily-automated-backups-using-restic/16812).Restic does not need rclone and can use many remote storage services directly. I do restic backups directly to Backblaze.
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.
Duplicity (cli) with deja-dup (gui) has saved my sorry ass many times.
I do periodic backups of my system from live usb via Borg Backup to a samba share.
rsync + backblaze B2. Bafkblaze is stupid cheap.
Cost is about $10 per year.
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.
I really like kopia
I’ve been taking incremental backups with borgbackup using Vorta as a frontend, was nice and simple to set up and haven’t had any issues with it so far.
