I've gotten so used to Arq Backup (macOS/Windows) (and Time Machine (macOS)), neither of which are convenient to run against Linux, that I've actually come to avoid using Linux as something to be backed up except as a container or VM, wholesale.
Ask HN: How do you backup your linux system?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you backup your linux system?
#82I use rsync with external disks
Re: Ask HN: How do you backup your linux system?
#83Hourly incremental backup with Deja Dup saved to Synology NAS. My wife's macbook also backs up via time machine to the nas.
Synology NAS backed up daily to Backblaze B2
Dead simple to set up and maintain, and in the event that I need to restore a file or files, it's relatively fast.
Re: Ask HN: How do you backup your linux system?
#84Ubuntu comes with Deja Dup which backs up files. It works fine for me. For the installed packages I use aptoncd for backing them up as an iso image.
Re: Ask HN: How do you backup your linux system?
#85Put all personal data on a zfs z2 RAID system (FreeNAS). Take regular snapshots. Someday I'm going to get a second offsite system to do ZFS backups to, but so far the above has served well. Then again I've been lucky enough to never have a hard drive fail, so the fact that I can lose 2 without losing data is pretty good. I'm vulnerable to fire and theft, but the most likely data loss scenarios are covered.
This.
I've got incremental snapshots sent to a box in a family member's house (and vice versa).
Re: Ask HN: How do you backup your linux system?
#86Most of my projects fit in my laptop hardisk. I have a dropbox subscription which syncs everything interesting in my laptop to dropbox servers. This setup has saved my work once when my old laptop died - I just bought a new laptop and synced everything from dropbox.