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splittercode

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From: WI, USA

Registered: 2010-03-16

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Re: Is there a good GUI tool on linux for backups? What do YOU use?

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/lu … tent=94391

LuckyBackup.

+1

I've tried quite a few backup utilities and luckybackup is the only one that's been super easy to use and never given me any problems.  (by the way, even though i guess it IS a KDE app, it only has three dependencies)

TomB17

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Registered: 2009-09-02

Posts: 102

Re: Is there a good GUI tool on linux for backups? What do YOU use?

Wrote my own in Bash... uses a mix of squashfs, aufs, and rsync to make incrementals.

http://github.com/falconindy/SquashFu

Is it any better than rdiff-backup?

I found rdiff-backup to be far less space efficient than just scripting the creation of tar balls on a regular basis.  Rdiff works pretty well but when I moved to my own script, I cut my space usage by just over half.  What's more, it's easier for offline backups to external disks that can be stored securely off site.

lardon

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Registered: 2008-05-31

Posts: 264

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Re: Is there a good GUI tool on linux for backups? What do YOU use?

Having thought about the problem a bit more, I'm pretty sure btrfs snapshots are the future of backups on linux. So, are there any good GUI tools yet for backups based on btrfs snapshots?

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Cheifchimp

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From: Queensland Australia

Registered: 2009-05-07

Posts: 69

Re: Is there a good GUI tool on linux for backups? What do YOU use?

Hi all,

I feel Linux lacks a good and simple graphical tool to do desktop backups for regular users. I'm thinking of writing one myself (probably a front-end to a good command line tool), but before I get started, I want to make sure I'm not reinventing the wheel.

If you do write your own please include backup to tape option, I might even be able to help a little if you code in C

rransom

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Registered: 2010-04-26

Posts: 92

Re: Is there a good GUI tool on linux for backups? What do YOU use?

Git won't keep permissions or ownership.

Git does preserve file modes.  (Probably not ACLs, though.)  It does lose ownership, as well as the timestamps.

anrxc

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2008-03-22

Posts: 835

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Re: Is there a good GUI tool on linux for backups? What do YOU use?

Use my own, no GUI just a few settings. Backup to NFS server or removable storage with rotating backup-snapshots going back hourly/daily/weekly/monthly as long as you need: http://git.sysphere.org/rybackup/

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Mikko777

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From: Suomi, Finland

Registered: 2006-10-30

Posts: 837

Re: Is there a good GUI tool on linux for backups? What do YOU use?

http://synkron.sourceforge.net/index.php

Been using that to get something easy for windows and linux. Parents and myself

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sanus|art

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From: Jerusalem, IL

Registered: 2009-09-01

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Re: Is there a good GUI tool on linux for backups? What do YOU use?

I like fsarchiver, it is not a CLI application but it was always worked for me, even while backing up live (running) systems.

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Barrucadu

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From: York, England

Registered: 2008-03-30

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Re: Is there a good GUI tool on linux for backups? What do YOU use?

rsync; one full backup of all my computers at the beginning of the month, and incremental backups every week. I only set it up earlier this month, though, so at the moment my roll-back options are rather limited (the 1st, 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th).

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zenlord

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-05-24

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Re: Is there a good GUI tool on linux for backups? What do YOU use?

Not GUI, but I have used bacula as my backup system for years.  At the office, I have an old machine running archlinux with some big drives that is my bacula backup server, all it does is backup the entire network to disk, every night, and has done so reliably for a couple of years.  It's not easy to get set up, but once it is, you can pretty much forget it's even running.  It has saved my butt from stupid mistakes a couple of times.

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Until a month ago, we used it on tapes, but since our new server was incompatible with the older SCSI-card and tape-device we had, we now backup to disk. It can be a b*tch to set up, but once it is running, it is fairly easy to change settings. I'm currently thinking of setting up an OpenVPN between the office and the homes of my colleagues and making off-site backups with bacula.