I'm looking for a very simple tool that just makes a compressed tarball (.tgz) of my /home once a week and stores it under, say, /var/tmp/backup.
It should also run if I hadn't switched my machine on on that particular backup day.
I know I could do this with cron-jobs and shell scripts but why invent the wheel twice?
BTW: What's the best medium for long-time storage of backups? If the answer is "put it on a filehoster", then the tool should also encrypt the tarball, because I trust nearly no one.
Thank you,
S.
Looking for an easy backup tool
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Looking for an easy backup tool
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Re: Looking for an easy backup tool
Try fsarchiver
read this thread, simple enough to backup file system
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 45#p682592
read this thread, simple enough to backup file system
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 45#p682592
Re: Looking for an easy backup tool
Clonzilla ( use on the wonderful Parted Magic) easy backup and clone, if you use a little common sense and work your way through it ( do it once and its easy then) Very versatile.
Redo backup nice easy backup with dedicated gui
The other way would be as you say with a script or try Grsync using --exclude for folders not to backup.
then anacron to automate.
Backup media. weekly to a different disk on the same machine , monthly/quarterly - external hdd only used for backups.
also look at FreeFileSync available fro linux, windows - worked ok on windows haven't tried on linux.
Redo backup nice easy backup with dedicated gui
The other way would be as you say with a script or try Grsync using --exclude for folders not to backup.
then anacron to automate.
Backup media. weekly to a different disk on the same machine , monthly/quarterly - external hdd only used for backups.
also look at FreeFileSync available fro linux, windows - worked ok on windows haven't tried on linux.
Re: Looking for an easy backup tool
I like BackInTime. You should backup to an external source instead of the local drive.simplex wrote:I'm looking for a very simple tool that just makes a compressed tarball (.tgz) of my /home once a week and stores it under, say, /var/tmp/backup.
It should also run if I hadn't switched my machine on on that particular backup day.
I know I could do this with cron-jobs and shell scripts but why invent the wheel twice?
BTW: What's the best medium for long-time storage of backups? If the answer is "put it on a filehoster", then the tool should also encrypt the tarball, because I trust nearly no one.
Thank you,
S.
Re: Looking for an easy backup tool
Have a look to "deja-dup". It is nicely integrated with Ubuntu/Mint, easy to use, can encrypt your backup and is convenient for simple backup tasks like those you described.