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04-21-2014, 03:36 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2010
Posts: 9
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Need Good Backup Program
trying to find a backup program that will work w/linux mint. Getting ready for a new hard drive and don/t want to losse all my bookmards nd home folder and e-mails. I am half blind, so reading a bunch of pages to search thi internet is not posible. Perhaps someone knows of a backup program that actually works.. Please let me know..Thank You in advamce.. Garry
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04-21-2014, 04:16 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Mar 2008
Posts: 22,145
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Using package manager should find a few backup apps. Sadly there are many many ways. Each would require you to study a bit.
I can't guarantee that each backup plan will work. You may wish to find a local linux person to assist.
Commercial software such as Acronis is known to work well with linux. (it is linux)
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04-21-2014, 09:49 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
Posts: 19,623
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Dimitri gave good marks to Backintime in one of his podcasts. It's a frontend for the rsync command, which is included in almost every Linux distro, including Mint.
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04-22-2014, 01:26 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2008
Location: Baja Oklahoma
Distribution: Debian Stable and Unstable
Posts: 1,943
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Rsync works. If you don't like using the command line, grsync is a GUI front-end for it. A good backup strategy is to use rsync via a cronjob, run every day or at least every week. Cron isn't the most user-friendly system, but it works.
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04-22-2014, 08:23 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Sydney
Distribution: Rocky 9.2
Posts: 18,404
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04-30-2014, 03:05 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2014
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You could take a look at Acronis Backup for Linux, though it is commercial. But it will give you the Graphic interface, and quite simple operations – so will save time.
Also, they will make disk image with snapshots – so a bit more safe than rsync.
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