Backing up Ubuntu

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 13:22:03 -0600, compdoc wrote:
>Grsync's last update was 2016.

Good software not necessarily need updates that often, however, thank
you for the research, since a GTK based GUI definitively requires
better maintenance.

>snapshots

I guess we need to clarify the semantic of the term "snapshot". For
some of us it seems to be a UNIX alike backup thingy providing the
opportunity to backup a running system, IOW to backup everything while
the system is running, so there's no need to shut down and backup from
either another install or a live media. But other might use the term
"snapshot" less specific.

The default ext4 file system used by Ubuntu doesn't allow "snapshots"
in the sense of a UNIX alike "dump", such as e.g. provided by default
FreeBSD installs.