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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7 | 142 | |
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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.
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Restic: Backups Done Right
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.
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Encrypt channel.backup?
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.
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What is everyone using to backup their multiple TB's of data?
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).
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What do you wish you knew before starting grad school?
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.
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Happy World Backup Day!
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.
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Mysterious Timeshift update
Version v22.06.6 Latest
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How to include /root and /home/user in timeshift snapshots
What I tried is to add "exclude" : [ "+ /home/user1/**", "+ /root/**", "+ /home/user2/**", ], to /etc/timeshift.json as per this post but the files within those folders still aren't included in the backup.
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Best configuration for bare hypervisor distro FOR DESKTOP VMs
Are you sure you need a full on virtual machine, rather than a system snapshotting tool like Snapper or Timeshift?
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I've been using Linux for a week , and i'm starting to like it
I would highly advise installing timeshift for making backups. There have been times where I thought I was doing something benign and I basically screwed something up major. Using timeshift you can easily revert back and it saves you from so much pain
- Cloned my Drive to a larger Driver But can't use the Space
- rsnapshot-like rotation backup tool to integrate in my scripts
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Properly backing up a running Linux system
Can't say much about your tar command, but if you did not checked it out already, take a look at Timeshift for system snapshots and rollback of changes. afaik you can just restore a snapshot on a blank drive. as far i see you can backup and restore EFI / boot as well. but never used it myself so can't say much about it.
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What are you doing for your backups?
I use backintime to back up files in my home directory, and use Timeshift for backing up system settings (really useful if you're messing around with your grub and fuck something up, speaking from experience).
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Some discoveries from investigating the SteamOS recovery image
For casual users, not really any benefit to using btrfs unless you want to use this https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift (and even then you don't need it, it just helps)
- Windows 11 and its forced "telemetry" made me switch to Linux. And I have to say - it's great. So why the hell isn't more people switching? And what's your fav distro?
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