Overview

To recover from some unexpected situations such as human error, disk failure, or corruption of file systems, you will need a good backup plan. Selecting the right backup solution for your personal needs can be very subjective. Below you will find a short-list of approaches, feel free to review these and/or search the internet for a perfect solution for your need.

Feel free to make additional solution suggestions or raise questions in the forums, or on Live Chat (Discord) with regards to selecting, installing, and/or configuring your favored backup solution.

Backup Solutions

Rsync

Website: https://www.howtogeek.com/135533/how-to-use-rsync-to-backup-your-data-on-linux/

Summary

A command-line backup tool popular among Linux users. Its feature-rich covering incremental backups, update whole directory tree and file system, both local and remote backups, preserves file permissions, ownership, links, and many more.

Bacula

Website: https://www.bacula.org/what-is-bacula/

Summary

Bacula is a set of computer programs that permits you (or the system administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. Bacula can also run entirely upon a single computer, and can backup to various types of media, including tape and disk.

Timeshift

Website: https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift

Summary

Timeshift for Linux is an application that provides functionality similar to the System Restore feature in Windows and the Time Machine tool in Mac OS. Timeshift protects your system by taking incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored at a later date to undo all changes to the system.

Timeshift is designed to protect system files and settings; it is NOT a backup tool and is not meant to protect user data – the entire contents of users’ home directories are excluded by default.

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