Backup in KDE neon
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Hi,
I am a new comer to KDE. I want to establish a backup and restore procedure. It has to have 2 oviose restore features: - The ability to overcome system crash (assuming I do the backup to external device) - The ability to restore single file/ folder. It has to have the following backup features - It has to run automatically and with scheduling options (Nothing fancy just the ability to determine when the automatically backup will take place) - It should be as simple as possible. Thanks, Ilan |
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Answer depends on:
1) Which KDE neon type(s)-of-filesystem do You use? Enter: $ mount 2) Where do You want to store the backup(s)? a) External Harddrive? b) Remote/other machine on network? |
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The following is my $ mount result:
I have 2 computers. If I can do both (Backing up each other and backing up on external disk) It would be great. Another possibility I thought about is to have One computer see the other (as a network drive) and then backing up the first computer including the other to one disk. Ilan |
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i've never used kup, but it might meet your requirements: https://masonbee.nz/backup-kde-neon-wit ... 8486328125
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There seems to be only one big ext4-partition:
I think, You don't intend to backup all of it? If both of Your computers use the same filesystem-type, they could backup each other, mutually. The same filesystem makes it possible to just copying things over without fear of loosing file-attributes in the process. You have to be careful regarding those attributes. They are easily overlooked by inexperienced users. You could just mount them remotely over NFS (or samba). And then copy back and forth. Either manually or using KDE desktop's builtin scheduler. If You only want to backup some of Your stuff, then backup Your home-directories, /etc and /var. A short introduction (from FreeBSD) about UNIX-backup can be found here (it really is a short read): https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO88 ... asics.html I myself would locally create a compressed archive and then copy this over onto a remote computer. But I don't know, what Your needs are. For the really important material, I use external harddrives. And for the really, really important stuff, I use both. The advantage of locally created archives is: You don't have to care about file-attributes potentially lost. My personal backup-strategy at home is very primitive: I backup my home-directory, and 5 or 30 files from /etc which I changed for my personal preferences. That's all I needed at home in the last 25 years. It may not look very professional to others. But it was always enough. I don't have a fixed backup schedule. When there is something new and important, I back it up. This solution may not be right for You, if You have several other human users and want to backup their data, too. If You have lots and lots of pictures, videos and games, then You need incremental backup, because You don't want to copy/save the same unchanged stuff again and again. Try: $ apt search backup and look at what comes up. You decide. Edit: By the way: FreeBSD tells me, this exists: $ pkg rquery '%c\n\n%e' kbackup Backup program with an easy to use user interface A Backup program with an easy to use User Interface based on the KDE Frameworks version 5. WWW: http://www.kde.org 2nd Edit: If You want to backup data that is constantly changing or changing in unknown ways or at unknown times, then I'd recommend installing KDE neon on btrfs-filesystem. This has these advantages: 1) Snapshots are instantaneous. Thereby, data consistency is guaranteed. 2) Ubuntu and thereby KDE neon too does perform automatic snapshots when doing its updates. 3) These or Your own snapshots can subsequently be used for backup. See: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php ... tal_Backup |
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