How do you all go about backing up your data, on Linux?

Kalcifer@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml – 192 points –

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.

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I like rsnapshot, run from a cron job at various useful intervals. backups are hardlinked and rotated so that eventually the disk usage reaches a very slowly growing steady state.

I also use it. Big benefit is also that you don‘t need a special software to access your backup.

Been using rsnapshot for years, has saved me more than once