udiskie
Automounter for removable media (by coldfix)
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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| 15 | 142 | |
| 815 | 4,441 | |
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| Python | Vala | |
| MIT License | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
udiskie
Posts with mentions or reviews of udiskie.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-13.
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Mount usb with user access
The most common approach (though a bit different) to get write access for users is probably using udisks[1]/udiskie[2] which use udev and polkit [3]. udiskie even supports luks unlocking [4].
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How to mount LUKS encrypted USB storages (and HDDs inserted to hot swappable drive bay) automatically when connected? The machine is running headlessly, does not have desktop environments installed.
https://github.com/coldfix/udiskie looks close, but does it work without desktop environments? Is there alternatives to udiskie that doesn't require desktop environments and supports unlocking LUKS encrypted volumes?
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Automount luks encrypted external USB drive?
Based on https://github.com/coldfix/udiskie/blob/master/doc/udiskie.8.txt and https://github.com/coldfix/udiskie/issues/66#issuecomment-289204539, you probably need to create a configuration for the encrypted hard disk in the file ~/.config/udiskie/config.yml. For example, as follows.
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New to wm, I choose i3-gaps, any suggestions?
For example, I typically ran things like lxpolkit, nm-applet, redshift, udiskie and xfce4-power-manager when I used i3.
- External Device Detection
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I3wm - How to get notified for an external device being connected?
By running udiskie in your i3 session, for example.
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Allow a user mount/dismount HDD's without sudo
This. There is also udiskie, a GUI tool with notification icon, support for unlocking encrypted partitions, powering off USB devices, and so on.
- Please add paragraph "Automount external drives" into doc
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basic applets/tray apps for tiling wm
I've used udiskie to handle removable drives in i3.
- Do polkit rules work without elogind?
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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Need a way to use BTRFS snapshots for system backups? Use BTRFS assistant, not Timeshift!
The previous developer of timeshift—Tony George (GitHub) — has been the developer since 2017 (based on GitHub version history), and has recently handed off development to the Linux Mint team.
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How do you do backups of your drives?
I use both timeshift & duplicity
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Timeshift - User Home Directories, Exclude All Files or Include All Files?
Don't believe me or u/acejavelin69 - read what the developer has to say about user data and why it is disabled by default. https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift
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Mysterious Timeshift update
Version v22.06.6 Latest
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set up timeshift on fedora 37
The original dev used ubuntu and only wanted to support the default ubuntu layout: https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift/issues/821
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System backup software question.
What system backup software can you recommend? In the past on Ubuntu I tested Timeshift, and it looks really cool. But the "main problem" is thing, that some options not work in Fedora: https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift, specifically BTRFS. What does it mean, this is a problem?
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Backup solution before system upgrade to Fedora 37
- [Timeshift](https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift) or [Deja Dup](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DejaDup) and back-up everything.
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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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Ubuntu 22.10 Timeshift
Releases · teejee2008/timeshift Was fixed. Get PPA from that repo to have the latest release.
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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?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing udiskie and TimeShift you can also consider the following projects:
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
Back In Time - Back In Time - An easy-to-use backup tool for GNU Linux using rsync in the back
skim - Fuzzy Finder in rust!
snapper - Manage filesystem snapshots and allow undo of system modifications
ffsend - :mailbox_with_mail: Easily and securely share files from the command line. A fully featured Firefox Send client.
BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.
inxi - inxi is a full featured CLI system information tool. It is available in most Linux distribution repositories, and does its best to support the BSDs.
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)
jellex - TUI to filter JSON and JSON Lines data with Python syntax
Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!
glances - Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.
restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program