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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I don’t. I lose my data like all the cool (read: fool) kids.

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I too rawdog linux like a chad

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Too real

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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

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I use Borg backup with Vorta for a GUI. Hasn’t let me down yet.

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Borgmatic is also a great option, cli only.

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I use PikaBackup which I think uses Borg. Super good looking Gnome app that has worked for me.

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This is the correct answer.

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Is it just me or the backup topic is recurring each few days on !linux@lemmy.ml and !selfhosted@lemmy.world?

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.

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It is a critical one. Maybe needs to be part of an FAQ with link to discussion.

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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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I have a bash script that backs all my stuff up to my Homeserver with Borg. My servers have cronjobs that run similar scripts.

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