Re:Cronopete – A Linux clone of Time Machine
by j-james on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @05:26PM
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I use (and highly recommend) Timeshift [1].
The GUI is nice and intuitive, and it supports both simple rsync snapshots and more complicated btrfs drives. It took me about five minutes to set it up to automatically back up once a day / week / month.
My personal setup excludes the home directory and saves backups once a week to a `/timeshift` folder, but you can easily set it up to write to an external drive, include your home folder, or back up manually. Somebody even wrote a script to take a backup before a system update with pacman hooks.
The GUI is nice and intuitive, and it supports both simple rsync snapshots and more complicated btrfs drives. It took me about five minutes to set it up to automatically back up once a day / week / month.
My personal setup excludes the home directory and saves backups once a week to a `/timeshift` folder, but you can easily set it up to write to an external drive, include your home folder, or back up manually. Somebody even wrote a script to take a backup before a system update with pacman hooks.
[1] https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift