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Software Replacement for Systemback?
DenW:
Joe Collins has just posted an interesting video dealing with Mint update and in particular the last half deals with using Timeshift:
Also Mint has revised their own backup program to just backup the Home directory to work in addition to Timeshift. Jerry has expressed his view that Deja-dup (which uses Duplicity and compresses/encrypts backups) has the easiest interface for that function, but there are also BackinTime and Lucky Backup (which both use Grsync so individual files can be easily retrieved).
These discussions have been had before but a decision will be required before LL4.0 next year. Any more thoughts?
Moltke:
--- Quote from: Jerry on November 14, 2017, 09:46:15 PM ---FYI, Mint just bundled Timeshift in their latest Beta. Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't believe they ever shipped a full system recovery tool before? Interesting indeed.
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Yes, you're right @Jerry Linux Mint 18.3 codename "Sylvia" now features a new back up tool "Mint Backup" as well as timeshift.
Jerry:
FYI, Mint just bundled Timeshift in their latest Beta. Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't believe they ever shipped a full system recovery tool before? Interesting indeed.
Moltke:
--- Quote from: torreydale on October 17, 2017, 10:32:54 AM ---
@Moltke ,
How is your external drive formatted? Is it FAT or NTFS? I believe Systemback prefers to work with ext4 formatted partitions.
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Hi @torreydale
Is NTFS. Hmmm ok, I imagined something like that's what keeping me from saving to my external drive. Well, like I said Aptik did a good job backing up my settings as well as most of my home directory data; I reinstalled all of my apps through it, except for those I'd installed via a .deb file. I also restored all the PPAs I'd included in my sources.list. I really liked this little app; fast, easy and really lightweight! If I were to describe it in one word I'd say is foolproof, at least it was for me ::). Grsync looks really nice too though, I'm looking forward to learn more on using it cause when I first tried it I think I missed some step/setting and the result wasn't as I expected. But apart from that I liked the way it works. :)
torreydale:
@Moltke ,
How is your external drive formatted? Is it FAT or NTFS? I believe Systemback prefers to work with ext4 formatted partitions.
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