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.

  • @PriorProject
    2•1 year ago

    I’ve used a combination of

    • Managing ZFS snapshots with pyznap
    • Plain old rsync to copy important files that happen not to be on ZFS filesystems to ZFS.

    If I were doing this over today, I’d probably consider https://zrepl.github.io/ instead of pyznap, as pyznap is no longer receiving real active development.

    In the past I’ve used rdiff-backup, which is great but it’s hard to beat copy-on-write snapshots for speed and being lightweight.