Backing up Ubuntu

[Dr. Mikeal Hughes]

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> On Jul 1, 2019, at 06:08, Jared Norris <jrnorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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