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What is you backup tool of choice? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't mean system files, but your personal and work files. I have been using Mint for a few years, I use Timeshift for system backups, but archived my personal files by hand. This got me curious to see what other people use. When you daily drive Linux what are your preferred tools to keep backups? I have thousands of pictures, family movies, documents, personal PDFs, etc. that I don't want to lose. Some are cloud backed but rather haphazardly. I would like to use a more systematic approach and use a tool that is user friendly and easy to setup and program.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’ve found Restic great once dialed in. I have a systemd service run backups automatically. Super fast thanks to only backing up diffs; only the initial backup is slow.

Yes making a script and service isn’t for everyone.

Finding files in the backup is easy… you just mount the backup and search any way you want, just like any other directory. Not sure why that’s hard?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've found restores really slow mostly, initial backups are slow but not too bad.

As far as mounting the backup and searching it, mostly it's just a lot of steps to remember.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ah. I also made another script where I type loadbackup in bash and everything is just there. I guess I’ve just made it easier for myself lol.

I also load Restic variables in bash so I’m not typing out paths etc. Password is kept in gnome keyring and is requested automatically.

I forget the annoying steps cause I’ve had this for awhile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I mean it's all stuff that can be solved, but I just don't have the time or urge to deal with it lol