I need a simple backup for Home folder
I had Back In Time and it works great until it doesn't. Free File Sync seems like it would be good but it often finds files it can't sync for some reason. I tried Kbackup. They said it was easy. It's not. At least not for me. I ran it for hours and when the Home folder was finally copied the screen froze. Then I finally learned how to untar the tar file and there was nothing in the file. (Admittedly, I may have done something wrong.)Grsync seems powerful but I get confused with "verbose" and all that stuff. Anyway, there's got to be something simple. All I would ask is that it be able to do incremental changes. I don't need old versions or anything like that. Thank you.
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I use rsync with the -a (for archive) argument. Here's my little script:
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rsync -a [/path/to/home] /media/sdb1/backups I understand that Back in Time is a front end for rsync, So it might help it you told us more about how Back in Time has misbehaved. |
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Anyway, I was looking over the directions for grsync and I'm starting to think that might work for me. (It's not as complicated as it seems.) So in your command sdb1 is a usb drive? What does your command actually do? (I'm still not real comfortable doing stuff like that in the terminal, though.) |
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If you were mostly happy with Back In Time, perhaps people here could help you with whatever problems you had with it. Rolling your own backup solution if you're not comfortable with the commandline could be a bit of a headache. Evo2. |
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I've never used "Back In Time" so I wonder: does it save copies of the source trees in point-in-time directories? (Ah... I checked the documentation and it looks like this may very well be the case.) If so, perhaps there's too many of the older snapshots and insufficient space for another. Did that error message appear immediately or early in the backup process? (Perhaps BIT scanned your hard disk and determined that the number of files to be backed up exceeded the remaining space on the USB drive and threw up its hands before doing anything.) After it had been running for a while? (It was backing up but simply ran out of space while performing the backup.) All of that would be helpful to know. Also, I'd try cleaning up old cruft like browser caches and thumbnails and trying again. If that works, perhaps BIT allows you to specify "backup up everything except that... and that... and..." (You get the idea.) HTH... |
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In other words, what if we recommend "something else" and it "works until it doesn't" (great problem description btw)? |
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I'm running Grsync right now. All I need is one backup. BIT specialized in going back in time. I just want now. We'll see how this goes. I can go back (no pun intended) and figure out BIT if I need to. |
I've been using Duplicity globally by the root crontab. It works fine and I've been able to do simple restorations. My problem is how to restore if I lose the existing directory /home/"$USER"/.cache/duplicity folder. Here is my script.
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Putting a backup of /home in /home is totally useless, just a waste of time and storage space. Backups should go to an external drive, either local, network, or cloud, preferably more than one. I know nothing about duplicity.
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.cache should not be considered as permanent. Anything there is subject to loss. I suggest backing up /home/"$USER"/.cache/duplicity to someplace external to /home. That could be done separately or as part of the normal backup.
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