I don’t mean system files, but your personal and work files. I have been using Mint for a few years, I use Timeshift for system backups, but archived my personal files by hand. This got me curious to see what other people use. When you daily drive Linux what are your preferred tools to keep backups? I have thousands of pictures, family movies, documents, personal PDFs, etc. that I don’t want to lose. Some are cloud backed but rather haphazardly. I would like to use a more systematic approach and use a tool that is user friendly and easy to setup and program.
Well it was duplicati, until it pulled this bullshit on me. I had a critical local failure of my data a month ago, 2.8TB lost. Pulled the backup off AWS S3 with my linux server, asked Duplicati to restore it, and it’s failed 4 times for random reasons, taking a week to get there each time. Once I can get this backup to finally restore, I’m moving over to Duplicity.
Stuff like that is why I ditched duplicati. I had to rebuild the local db that would randomly corrupt itself one too many times.
Exactly where my failure is. It’s corrupting mid-way through the rebuild for no apparent reason.