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.

  • @wheels
    1•1 year ago

    Things I like about rsnapshot:

    • Backups are just normal files, there are no software dependencies to do disaster recovery
    • Uses linux hard links so snapshots of files that haven’t changed don’t use extra disk space
    • Backups are pull, not push, so the target directory can be locked down (protecting against ransomware attacks etc)
    • Data transfer uses rsync, so it’s quick!