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What is you backup tool of choice? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't mean system files, but your personal and work files. I have been using Mint for a few years, I use Timeshift for system backups, but archived my personal files by hand. This got me curious to see what other people use. When you daily drive Linux what are your preferred tools to keep backups? I have thousands of pictures, family movies, documents, personal PDFs, etc. that I don't want to lose. Some are cloud backed but rather haphazardly. I would like to use a more systematic approach and use a tool that is user friendly and easy to setup and program.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

+1 rsync, to an external harddrive. Superfast. Useful also in case I need a backup of a single file that I changed or deleted by mistake. Work files are also backed up to the cloud on mega.nz, which is very useful also for cross-computer sync. But I don't trust personal files to the cloud.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Don't forget that a local backup is as bad as no backup at all in the case of a fire or other disaster. Not trusting the cloud is fine (though strong encryption can make this very safe), but looking into some kind of off site backup is important. Could be as simple as a second hard drive that you swap out weekly stored in a safe deposit, or a nas at a trusted friends house.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Completely agree! I didn't mention this, but I keep the back-up hard drive in another apartment.

This reminds me of a story that happened in some university in England: they had two backups of some server in two different locations. One day one back-up drive failed, and the second failed the day after. Apparently they were the same brand & model. The moral was: use also different back-up hardware brands or means!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

3 2 1 3 different backups 2 different mediums 1 off-site

Haven't seen that not be good move yet.