I am currently using Freefilesync Flatpak, but that app is not great at all. I dont want weird archives or anything, just to copy my filesystem to another drive.

Also, I want to mirror with the possibility to exclude folders. Mirroring means that the backup should be updated to look like my disk, including deletion of files.

I tested many tools in the Past and for some reason came back to FFS.

Best would be to have automatic backups once I plug in and decrypt the backup drive.

Thanks!

  • Atemu
    3•1 year ago

    I dont want weird archives or anything, just to copy my filesystem to another drive.

    For proper backups, you do want “weird archives” with integrity checks, versioning, deduplication and compression. Regular files cannot offer that (at least not efficiently so).

      • Atemu
        1•1 year ago

        Even with btrfs “weird archives” such as Borg’s or restic’s are preferred for backups.