Backing up Ubuntu

[Mike Marchywka]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 01:22:03PM -0600, compdoc wrote:
> On 7/1/19 12:35 PM, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> 
> > While writing this email, I needed to restart Claws on my Arch Linux
> > install;). I strongly discourage using any GUI and especially using a
> > GTK2 based GUI for backups.
> 
> I noticed several of the suggestions here are projects that havent been
> updated in years, which makes me leery of trying them.
> 
> Grsync's last update was 2016. Timeshift is more recently updated, but it
> seems to lack network support and needs a local drive. I only had one drive
> in this system, and it defaulted to storing the snapshots, etc on the same
> drive. I do like it, though.
> 
> Borg backup has ongoing development, so I'd like to try that next.

I was really amazed how fast it was to just run something like this 
with "mnt" pointing to a USB 3.0 device. 

sudo cp -rpuv /home/documents/* mnt/documents 2>& 1 | tee -a "$lf"
sudo cp -rpuv /home/scripts/* mnt/scripts 2>&1 | tee -a "$lf"

I run it by hand but in a cron job that would work. I'm not
sure what the big deal is with "snapshot" unless you have
a huge amount of activity and need data to be consistent and
you can't have a data specific backup or locking. 

I guess there is a lot that can go wrong but I just watch
it run so don't care much about errors and I also do project
backups. 


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