What software do you use for backups?
>>106555873Double Commander and Windows Explorer.
>>106555873Bup for smaller stuff, manual copies for bigger stuff
>>106555873Backups?
>>106555873Deja Dup.
>>106555909Yeah for people who use their computers for things other than games
>>106555945There are games on computers?
>>106555873I do manual backups to an external encrypted hard drive during the 1st of every month. Used to do a manual copy into a dated folder on Windows. On Linux I'm looking into using rsync or something to make my life easier, but I'm new to this OS.
>>106555873used to use rsnapshot and borgnow use restic and pbs (proxmx backup server)
Why are manual backups so popular? Doesn't it occur to people that 1) this could be easily automated and save you time and effort and 2) it's more efficient and easier on your drives to only update the changed files?
>>106555873- Arq (to disk & OneDrive)- Time Machine- Carbon Copy ClonerAcross multiple physical devices.
>>106556034Because I want an external drive stored in a locked fireproof safe in the event my apartment burns down
>>106556089That's backup level 2. Backup level 1 is online and automated for the "damn the computer fucked up and lost everything" moments
>>106556097>onlineNo.
>>106555873Drag & Drop, it's not that complicated.
Syncthing: my most used files are shared between devices.Duplicati: encrypted backups of my files to cloud.Macrium Reflect: backups of my entire Win10 drive.Duplicati: encrypted backups of Reflect images to cloud
>>106556034It's way more likely for data to be corrupted, and disks decay more quickly when plugged in. If I have to plug it in manually to back up automatically... might as well back up manually
>>106556707>disks
>>106557293You don't back up to flash storage, right? ... right?
rclone is comfy
>>106557293HDD's are significantly cheaper for storage space and can hold more than SSD's.
>>106555873I keep my home folder rsynced to my file server and an rpi. Both on my local network in various parts of my house. Backups are done weekly on Sunday.
>>106557304You should consider using flash storage if you don't want to have the issues you described
>>106555873I ain't doin no backups. I'm a ruff ryda, nigga.
I just remember everything.
>>106557453It's cute that you think flash storage is immune to biteot and sudden failure. Even more cute that you think HDDs are less reliable
>>106557453Why would you use flash storage as a backup solution? Do you enjoy overpaying for storage space?
>>106555873I wrote a Bash script that backups everything I want through rsync, and another one for rolling it out.IMHO, anything other than rsync and its GUIs is unneeded bloat.
>>1065558737zip
Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeefiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilesyyyyyyyyyyyyync
>>106558767Also Timeshift; Time Machine; and AOMEI backupper.
Duplicacy. Seems to work fine but it is clunky.
>>106556102nigger online doesn't mean it's on the internet dumb faggot
A backup script I run periodically. It goes through the home directory, and creates an uncompressed tar file on the remote drive for each unhidden folder.
>>106555873I have a PC, laptop, tablet, smartphone... trying to keep things somewhat in sync between them is a pain, I'm thinking of just putting everything in the Cloud.Should I go for Google Drive or OneDrive?
I use borg. It's pretty good.
fuuuuuuuck dont remind me
>>106560874syncthing just werks and youre a dumbass
>>106555873I just use google drive cloud storage for really important stuff which might also be really stupid.
Create Synchronicity works great. Just wish it had the option to preserve creation date on copies.The workaround is to use robocopy with the appropiate flags if I need to conserve the exact metadata.
>>106555873Is this what happens when you have a 5090, or is it what happens when you update Windows 11 with an SSD?
>>106555873OneDrive and Google Drive.
>>106557304Worse: Hybrid HDDs with an SSD cache
>>106555873Rsync in bash scripts with ssh and anacron.
It loads a list of directories from a text file and copies them to a remote machine with the same directory names.
>>106555873Google's data centers.
>>106560874Use only Google Drive. OneDrive is terrible like everything else that isn't Google.
>>106555873duplicati with ftp target on synology nas
>>106556034>this could be easily automated and save you time and effortI'm too dumb to do that.
>>106556707>If I have to plug it in manually to back up automatically... might as well back up manuallyi do this, so i'm not sure if it counts as manual or automatic. like i have a udev rule that detects my backup drive and runs a script. so i plug the drive in, and it automatically rsync's everything.is that "manual" or "automatic"? i suppose it's not fully automatic, since i have to do /something/, but then, is something a backup if it's not offline? so what even IS an "automatic backup"?
>>106565255It's manual. Having a script you run manually (by plugging the drive) that backus up a list of files doesn't make it not manual it just makes it efficient
looks like I'll go back to using macrium free trials
>>106555873Veeam B&R since I'm not a tinkertroon
>>106555873>What software do you use for backups?Software? I just back whatever I give a shit about on a flash drive I keep on my key chain once every couple of months.Pic related
>>106555873robocopy
>>106555873rclone copy -v --create-empty-src-dirs
>>106555873Printout of the hexdump of the hard drive image. Scanner with an OCR for restoring.
>>106568927Had one of these. Only lasted 3 years, before it failed on me for no reason. Did not even use it very often, it was just getting very toasty every time I use it. Also have a 1gb Kingston that is 15 years old and it still works.They ain't making these like they used to.
