How do you all go about backing up your data, on Linux? - eviltoast

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.

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    1 year ago

    I use Pika backup, which uses borg backup under the hood. It’s pretty good, with amazing documentation. Main issue I have with it is its really finicky and is kind of a pain to setup, even if it “just works” after that.

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        1 year ago

        The way pika backup handles it, it loads the backup as a folder you can browse. I’ve used it a few times when hopping distros to copy and paste stuff from my home folder. Not very elegant, but it works and is very intuitive, even if I wish I could just hit a button and reset everything to the snapshot.