Re: User-oriented backup tools

http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

I use it on remote backups when I don’t trust the destination (therefore, all encryption happens locally), and on local-to-local copies (copy home to, say, another partition).

About the only caveat is it cannon to synthetic fulls on the remote (but the encryption is solid….), and so I am exploring borg, attic, bup as well.

Cheers!

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On Feb 15, 2017, at 5:37 PM, Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi guys, It's the first time I'm posting here. I'm both a Fedora and
Debian user.

Which backup tool do you use?
At this time I feel comfortable with rsync, which I use to sync my home
to an external Usb drive. No automation, no scheduling for now. I just
launch rsync from the command line and let it backup all the stuff when
I need it.

Now I'd like to move to more powerful utility. It should be reliable and
very user-friendly. A friend on Irc suggested me borg [1], which also
feature decuplication, encryption and seems easy enough to use.

Otherwise I discovered a scripting hot-to to make some kind of snapshots
via rsync (and hardlinking) [2], but I haven't tryed it out yet.

So... What's your opinion about user-oriented backup tools? ^^

Thanks in advance.

[1] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
[2] http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

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