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View Poll Results: Backup Application of the Year
AMANDA 0 0%
Back In Time 8 7.55%
Backup Manager 0 0%
BackupPC 3 2.83%
Bacula 6 5.66%
Bareos 2 1.89%
BorgBackup 9 8.49%
Burp 0 0%
Clonezilla 19 17.92%
Deja Dup 1 0.94%
dump 1 0.94%
Duplicity 4 3.77%
FSArchiver 1 0.94%
git-annex 1 0.94%
luckyBackup 8 7.55%
rdiff-backup 6 5.66%
Redo Backup and Recovery 2 1.89%
rsnapshot 8 7.55%
tarsnap 2 1.89%
Timeshift 25 23.58%
ZBackup 0 0%
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Old 01-05-2021, 04:36 PM   #16
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Rsync and Timeshift using rsync
 
Old 01-06-2021, 05:14 AM   #17
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Why was rsync removed when people are clearly mad for it?
 
Old 01-06-2021, 05:55 AM   #18
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I always use tar. Why was it removed?
 
Old 01-06-2021, 06:21 AM   #19
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rsync, scp, tar. Low level to a Linux backup server that does the bookkeeping. Average restore time for any file backed up in the past 10 years is about 10 seconds (full backup size about 8 Tb). Due to handwritten restore GUI (Perl, Tk, PostgreSQL), it is also easy to find the stuff one wants to restore.
 
Old 01-07-2021, 12:16 AM   #20
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Smile I comfortably do weekly backups of my main OS...
with Timeshift. Highly recommend it...the documentation is approable to even a newbie...just about a year ago I was! I never delete the updates that include install/critical-post-install increments, but only keep 12 additional increments that only include personal data/small changes...to balance poetential backup "increments-bitrot" and eating through wear-leveling life of Sandisk Extreme Pro 250 GB drive stick.
 
Old 01-07-2021, 12:21 PM   #21
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What's your preferred tool for backups?
Note: rsync and tar were removed in a previous year.

--jeremy
Why? Because they dwarf all the others? They should definitely be added!
 
Old 01-08-2021, 04:52 PM   #22
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Smile Rsync is one of the backends of Timeshift...
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Why? Because they dwarf all the others? They should definitely be added!
...but more user-friendly with a GUI.
 
Old 01-08-2021, 05:41 PM   #23
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Rsync and Timeshift using rsync
Rsync's needs learning a pretty complex set of arguments, but Grsync? Maybe.
 
Old 01-08-2021, 07:14 PM   #24
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...but more user-friendly with a GUI.
In Linux, it is often happens that "more user-friendly" GUI actually turns to be just more buggy and unstable than CLI, with no other advantage.
 
Old 01-11-2021, 06:25 AM   #25
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No rsync?
 
Old 01-11-2021, 09:53 AM   #26
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In Linux, it is often happens that "more user-friendly" GUI actually turns to be just more buggy and unstable than CLI, with no other advantage.
HA-HA-HAAAAAAAAA! That's funny, I've been using it for a little over a year...easy and reliable.
 
Old 01-11-2021, 10:35 AM   #27
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HA-HA-HAAAAAAAAA! That's funny, I've been using it for a little over a year...easy and reliable.
"A little over a year" is not enough. I am using Linux a bit more than two decades.

So, be prepared for surprises to come.

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No rsync?
To compensate, almost every comment in this thread is about rsync.
Last edited by gevis; 01-11-2021 at 10:39 AM.
 
Old 01-11-2021, 11:13 PM   #28
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"A little over a year" is not enough. I am using Linux a bit more than two decades.

So, be prepared for surprises to come.



To compensate, almost every comment in this thread is about rsync.
Whatever you say fool!
 
Old 01-12-2021, 12:47 AM   #29
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Whatever you say fool!
I found the poster to be rather arrogant in your quote, but that doesn't mean you should insult them.
This incident has been reported.
 
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I found the poster to be rather arrogant in your quote, but that doesn't mean you should insult them.
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