Backing up Ubuntu

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I've been looking into dar and partclone for my own backups.  I have no
experience with either one yet, but I'm about to.
Partclone because it seems to offer a uniform way to deal with all
partition types.
Dar because it offers incremental backups, unlike tar, and is designed for
seekable media for speed.


On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 10:03 AM compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com> wrote:

> Timeshift is my new best friend. I had a second drive laying around, so
> I have timeshift backing to it.
>
> There arent many settings. I selected rsync, location, the default
> schedule, (runs daily and keeps 5 backups) and which users to backup. I
> selected all users. You can add filters.
>
> There is a summary of files/folders. The defaults include all the
> important folders like /boot and /etc, and exclude swap files and other
> things.
>
> It runs at random times, so I have not yet noticed it running. Each
> backup is full. My drive has 76 gigs used, and the backups are 55 gigs
> each. I think I'll have it keep 7 backups, and add a monthly...
>
>
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