Backing up Ubuntu

[Knight, Dave]

Have you looked at "timeshift"?
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On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 9:10 AM Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <
ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> I can't comment on Windows and Mac, but AFAIK for Linux there's no such
> snapshot option available as for FreeBSD.
>
> What you want, most likely is supported by rsync, but you first need to
> shut down your Linux session and e.g. backup the complete install from a
> live media.
>
> I'm not using rsync, since I'm in favour of
>
> sudo tar --xattrs -czf
>
> or
>
> sudo cp -ai
>
> and I keep several copies on different external hard disks. However,
> you also need to shut down your session and to run tar or cp from a
> live media, too.
>
> While rsync much likely provides a history of backups and latest
> backups might not be as time consuming, it's still odd. Using tar or cp
> is less prone regarding user errors and it's anyway better to spread
> backups over several external hard disks.
>
> However, any backup strategy using basic command line options is way
> more secure than using special tools. Using a command such as 'dd'
> is useful to backup the MBR, but MBRs backups don't gain that much as a
> lot of people guess, let alone that for anything else 'dd' is
> completely useless, if you want to avoid grotesk issues.
>
> You probably want to go the learning curve that is required to use
> rsync, if not consider to do it the same way as I do and use tar or cp.
>
> Don't use special tools, unless you want to check the source code
> to check what they actually do, for each update of a tool again and
> again.
>
>
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