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Need advice for backup software for linux (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by therealbabyshell@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hi,

I currently use a program called copywhiz on windows that backs up any files or directories created after a certain date to a usb hard drive and runs once a day.

I want to transition fully to Linux. Is there any easy to use software that works on Linux that can do this?

P.S. I have tried creating a bash script to do this but for some reason it has trouble with the date part. So a software solution would be prefered.

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[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Linux Mint and love the automatic backup tool that's built in: timeshift

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Timeshift is for a system backup, in case your system broke for whatever reason you could get back quickly to your work without rebuilding and reconfiguring it. It's not ment for backing up user files.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's built on top of rsync, you can easily configure it to make a backup of any arbitrary set of files

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can use it like that, but it's not a primary focus I think.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

That's true, sure. I still find it a convenient tool, so I thought OP might find it convenient for this use-case even if that's not the primary purpose

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

It wasn't designed for that. Use backintime instead, or any number of other backup tools.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A system backup would include user files though, so that would be fine.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Timeshift explicitly omits /home by default. "System" here means the operating system files not all the files on the machine.