Duplicity VS TimeShift

Compare Duplicity vs TimeShift and see what are their differences.

Duplicity

Unnoficial fork of Duplicity - Bandwidth Efficient Encrypted Backup (by hcarvalhoalves)

TimeShift

System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be restored while system is running or from Live CD/USB. (by teejee2008)
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Duplicity TimeShift
7 142
50 4,441
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0.0 4.7
over 12 years ago over 1 year ago
Python Vala
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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Duplicity

Posts with mentions or reviews of Duplicity. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-13.
  • Restic: Backups Done Right
    31 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Nov 2021
    http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ at least can use PGP public keys. I've used it for a long time and not seen any particular reason to change.
  • Encrypt channel.backup?
    2 projects | /r/lightningnetwork | 23 Sep 2021
    There are backup tools with built-in encryption like borg backup or duplicity, these should be fine. If you already have a backup process and it's missing encryption then you should be able to use e.g. age or gpg.
  • What is everyone using to backup their multiple TB's of data?
    2 projects | /r/PleX | 29 Jun 2021
    For my family photos (critical, irreplaceable, on plex), I use duplicity which can make use of Amazon Glacier and Deep Archive for really cheap storage (0.00099 /gb /month no joke) with incremental versioning and client side encryption. Long restore time, but perfect for disaster recovery on data that doesn't change much. Want to set up the same for music (which rarely but sometimes changes, e.g. Correcting tags).
  • What do you wish you knew before starting grad school?
    2 projects | /r/GradSchool | 31 May 2021
    And google docs / apple cloud etc. aren't proper backups. They can cancel your account, be inaccessible, or hacked even. There's software like duplicity that can upload encrypted backups to multiple services, which are handy. But in any case, if you're doing cloud backups, do do redundant local backups too. My setup is I've a USB stick tacked onto a Raspberry Pi computer, and use something called borg to do daily backups over SSH.
  • Happy World Backup Day!
    5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 31 Mar 2021
    I have had good success using [Duplicity](http://duplicity.nongnu.org/) via [Duply](https://www.duply.net/) for a few years now. The main point for me is that duplicity directly backs up to many cloud-storage endpoints. I'm using google drive specifically, but it supports a ton of options.

TimeShift

Posts with mentions or reviews of TimeShift. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-27.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Duplicity and TimeShift you can also consider the following projects:

Back In Time - Back In Time - An easy-to-use backup tool for GNU Linux using rsync in the back

snapper - Manage filesystem snapshots and allow undo of system modifications

BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.

restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program

Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!

Rsnapshot - a tool for backing up your data using rsync (if you want to get help, use https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsnapshot-discuss)

btrbk - Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes

Backup - Easy full stack backup operations on UNIX-like systems.

Kup Backup System - A backup scheduler for KDE's Plasma desktop