Backing up Ubuntu

[Jared Norris]

Good evening all,

I've been helping my family set up windows and mac machines lately and been
impressed at their backup options. This put me on to looking at my Ubuntu
backup options and I feel a little hard done by in comparison, which is odd
as it's usually the other way around.

I thought it might just be I don't know all that's out there despite a few
hours poking around online so I thought I'd put it out to you all. Is there
such a thing as a good back up system/s for Ubuntu ? My use case is to
achieve 2 things:
1 - Incremental file history - if I break a config file or other day to day
file I'd like to be able to go back to a specific file and restore the
single file.
2 - System snapshot - if I really break things I'd like the opportunity to
reinstall as it was x amount of time before the break

I can't make the deja-dup tool that comes with Ubuntu do either of these
things reliably (it only restores everything from a date and even then, if
trying to back up a whole system snapshot it gives errors about being
unable to read certain files that are obviously in use).

In the past I've done manual backups with rsync but finding myself looking
for something more automated.

Is there anything out there better than my manual rsync to achieve the 2
types of backups I'm looking for?

Regards,

Jared Norris
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