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 rotate between a few computers. Everything is synced between them with syncthing and they all have automatic btrfs snapshots. So I have several physical points to roll back from.
For a worst case scenario everything is also synced offsite weekly to a pCloud share. I have a little script that mounts it with pcloudfs, encfs and then rsyncs any updates.
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.
I use rsync+btrfs snapshot solution.
- Use rsync to incrementally collect all data into a btrfs subvolume
- Deduplicate using
duperemove - Create a read-only snapshot of the subvolume
I don’t have a backup server, just an external drive that I only connect during backup.
Deduplication is mediocre, I am still looking for snapshot aware
duperemovereplacement.I’m not trying to start a flame war, but I’m genuinely curious. Why do people like btrfs over zfs? Btrfs seems very much so “not ready for prime time”.
Features necessary for most btrfs use cases are all stable, plus btrfs is readily available in Linux kernel whereas for zfs you need additional kernel module. The availability advantage of btrfs is a big plus in case of a disaster. i.e. no additional work is required to recover your files.
(All the above only applies if your primary OS is Linux, if you use Solaris then zfs might be better.)
btrfs is included in the linux kernel, zfs is not on most distros
the tiny chance that an externel kernel module borking with a kernel upgrade happens sometimes and is probably scary enough for a lot of peopleFair enough
I’ve only ever run ZFS on a proxmox/server system but doesn’t it have a not insignificant amount of resources required to run it? BTRFS is not flawless, but it does have a pretty good feature set.
At the core it has always been rsync and Cron. Sure I add a NAS and things like rclone+cryptomator to have extra copies of synchronized data (mostly documents and media files) spread around, but it’s always rsync+Cron at the core.
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.
I use Rclone which has both an WEBUI and CLI.
When I do something really dumb I typically just use dd to create an iso. I should probably find something better.
I use
btrbkto send btrfs snapshots to a local NAS. Consistent backups with no downtime. The only annoyance (for me at least) is that both send and receive ends must use the same SELinux policy or labels won’t match.I use timeshift. It really is the best. For servers I go with restic.
I use timeshift because it was pre-installed. But I can vouch for it; it works really well, and let’s you choose and tweak every single thing in a legible user interface!
I run Openmediavault and I backup using BorgBackup. Super easy to setup, use, and modify
Vorta + borgbase
The yearly subscription is cheap and fits my storage needs by quite some margin. Gives me peace of mind to have an off-site back up.
I also store my documents on Google Drive.
DejaDup on one computer. Another is using Syncthing, another I do a manual Grsync. i really should have a better plan. lol
Is it just me or the backup topic is recurring each few days on [email protected] and [email protected]?
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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