I am currently using Freefilesync Flatpak, but that app is not great at all. I dont want weird archives or anything, just to copy my filesystem to another drive.
Also, I want to mirror with the possibility to exclude folders. Mirroring means that the backup should be updated to look like my disk, including deletion of files.
I tested many tools in the Past and for some reason came back to FFS.
Best would be to have automatic backups once I plug in and decrypt the backup drive.
Thanks!
I use syncthing to mirror to a raspberry pi NAS. Set it and forget it
I actually didnt say local. Use syncthing already, its just great. Two phones and two laptops, no problems really.
But this is for local backups
You could try Grsync. It is a GUI for rsync ☺️
Or just use rsync itself. Arch wiki provides some command examples
yup, good old “rsync -av --delete source destination”
Okay true, just found out the parameters and it looks pretty nice and easy. Aaand its preinstalled on Fedora Kinoite, so nothing extra even. And no flatpak, which is annoying for these tasks
Have a look at
--link-dest. You can use rsync to effectively setup your own time machine. Here’s the script I’ve used in the past: https://gitlab.com/danielquinn/handy-scripts/-/blob/master/backup
I dont want weird archives or anything, just to copy my filesystem to another drive.
For proper backups, you do want “weird archives” with integrity checks, versioning, deduplication and compression. Regular files cannot offer that (at least not efficiently so).
Ok thanks. Fedora already uses BTRFS, would that work?
Even with btrfs “weird archives” such as Borg’s or restic’s are preferred for backups.
Just setup an rsync script. I use that KDE backup tool instead. It’s just a gui to setup auto rsync backups.
Kup, right? It has a systemsettings page?
I use timeshift on my arch, debian and fedora systems. First backup mirrors your whole drive, every new backup kinda does it like docker, files which stayed the same are being symlinked to the og backup and for file changes it puts the newer file into the next backup, file deletions just don’t get links, so you have versioning. U can set how often backups will happen daily/weekly/monthly and how many are kept, doing backups manually is an option too. also you can set what folders to include, exclude and all that good stuff.
So many options. As others have mentioned, rsync, borg, restic, etc. You might want to look into filesystem snapshots. If you use something like BTRFS you can create instant snapshots and send them to a second BTRFS formatted disk or even a remote system with a BTRFS filesystem.
ZFS would also work here.
I use btrbk for automatic BTRFS snapshots and backing them up to remote systems.
If you want built-in encryption you can use Borg or Restic, which also has the advantage of deduplicating within a single backup set. Restic can also backup to an s3 bucket, in case you want to use a cloud service.
Thanks! I have a local drive, does btrbk work there too?
I am on Fedora so BTRFS ftw
Yes of course. On the btrbk homepage they even describe how to set it up so that a backup gets triggered automatically when you plug in a designated backup drive.
My setup is to create local snapshots and keep X amount of local snapshots. Copy snapshots to a remote server and keep a different amount of snapshots there. Finally I also have a backup drive and btrbk is setup to copy all my local snapshots to that backup drive when it’s plugged in.
https://lemmy.ml/post/6979643 this might be a related posts with already a few answers
Lots of great suggestions here.
What about straight up disk cloning? Like, with dd to a dedicated backup drive?
