On Wednesday 15 February 2017 17:37:40 Francesco Porro wrote: > Hi guys, It's the first time I'm posting here. I'm both a Fedora and > Debian user. > > Which backup tool do you use? > At this time I feel comfortable with rsync, which I use to sync my > home to an external Usb drive. No automation, no scheduling for now. I > just launch rsync from the command line and let it backup all the > stuff when I need it. > > Now I'd like to move to more powerful utility. It should be reliable > and very user-friendly. A friend on Irc suggested me borg [1], which > also feature decuplication, encryption and seems easy enough to use. > > Otherwise I discovered a scripting hot-to to make some kind of > snapshots via rsync (and hardlinking) [2], but I haven't tryed it out > yet. > > So... What's your opinion about user-oriented backup tools? ^^ > Very simple: amanda
> Thanks in advance. > > [1] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ > [2] http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
