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!
If you want backups done right, use BorgBackup. You can use Vorta as a GUI for Borg.
I didn’t know it had a GUI, very nice.
You could try Grsync. It is a GUI for rsync ☺️
Or just use rsync itself. Arch wiki provides some command examples
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
yup, good old “rsync -av --delete source destination”
I use syncthing to mirror to a raspberry pi NAS. Set it and forget it
rsync is ubiquitous and the standard for this type of job.
rsync -rav --delete --progress --exclude=ignore_dir source-dir user@host:remote_dir
SSH is used to connect. Ownership, symlinks, etc. are preserved. Add more “excludes” to filter out more directories. Do your first run without " delete" to make sure things are going where you want.
If you want “backups” I would suggest something more sophisticated. But for just cloning this is the way.
I currently use restic, but borg backup or just rsync would do well for what you need.
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).
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.
https://lemmy.ml/post/6979643 this might be a related posts with already a few answers
