I’m trying to find a good method of making periodic, incremental backups. I assume that the most minimal approach would be to have a Cronjob run rsync
periodically, but I’m curious what other solutions may exist.
I’m interested in both command-line, and GUI solutions.
I use timeshift. It really is the best. For servers I go with restic.
I use timeshift because it was pre-installed. But I can vouch for it; it works really well, and let’s you choose and tweak every single thing in a legible user interface!
When I do something really dumb I typically just use dd to create an iso. I should probably find something better.
Used to use Duplicati but it was buggy and would often need manual intervention to repair corruption. I gave up on it.
Now use Restic to Backblaze B2. I’ve been very happy.
Restic to B2 is made of win.
The quick, change-only backups in a digit executable intrigued me; the ability to mount snapshots to get at, e.g., a single file hooked me. The wide, effortless support for services like BackBlaze made me an advocate.
I back up nightly to a local disk, and twice a week to B2. Everywhere. I have some 6 machines I do this on; one holds the family photos and our music library, and is near a TB by itself. I still pay only a few dollars per month to B2; it’s a great service.