I am currently using EndeavourOS for my laptop. Is there a backup solution that is easy to use, and can be run from the EndeavourOS install media without internet? (RSync is included, but no other backup tools are included, to my knowledge.) I don’t want to use another ISO due to space constraints on my USB.

  • ikidd@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 years ago

    Borg backup. You should be able to install it on your Live session, then restore to the target mount point.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Vorta looks very powerful. I know all that functionality is in Borg, but it’s tricky to do it right. I’ll give Vorta a try on my next install.

    • Quazatron@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      BorgBackup is the answer. Stopped creating stupid shell scripts with rsync and whatever and thinking I was so clever.

      • lynny@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 years ago

        Technically you are able to to do with any live environment and backup data, so the answer would be “yes”.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        As long as you don’t reboot, your live sessions act like a fully installed OS. At least with any of the LiveUSB sessions I’ve ever used over the last decade.

        You can install, mount a backup image, then push it on to a mountpoint for your actual install to be restored.

  • Minty95@lemm.ee
    7·
    2 years ago

    Timeshift. Easy to set up. Easy to use, only takes a couple of minutes to ‘re-set’ your system back, if you break it. If you want just to backup files, documents etc then Cron. I use both. They are standard Linux programs and easy to use

  • lynny@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    Restic is my favorite, but you really would need to be familiar with the terminal, cron tasks, etc. to consider it a viable option.

  • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    I use backintime and have for a number of years. It is incremental with unchanged files being hard-linked and makes it easy to restore files if needed.

        • Atemu@lemmy.ml
          2·
          2 years ago

          They are often incremental but they’re still not a backup.

          They are local restore points. That’s better than nothing at all as a local copy can protect against a very limited kind of data hazard and quite handy indeed but not a backup. A backup is always an independent copy.

          If your entire machine was to blow up, a backup must be able to retain your data. A copy on the same disks will not.

          • Dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            Now I get your point, sorry. You can use both Timeshift and BackInTime as snapshot tools, but also configure them to create snapshots on a different drive, making it an actual backup.

            I for example use Timeshift in Rsync mode for that reason even though I’m also using Btrfs, which Timeshift supports, but only for non-backup snapshots.

            Sorry for the confusion, I guess when suggesting both those tools one always has to specify that you need to save snapshots on a secondary drive for it to be a backup.

  • zkikiz@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Idk about Endeavour but I use Duplicity and don’t currently regret it.

  • cizra@lemm.ee
    21·
    2 years ago

    I wrote a Bash script that uses rsync to copy data elsewhere.

    It gets launched by a systemd timer, but cron would also work. At first it creates a btrfs snapshot of source, for consistency’s sake.

    Then it copies stuff. It’s incremental, ie. unchanged files get hardlinked, not copied (-link-dest against the latest symlink) into date-specific directories that present the full view of the filesystem.

    Finally, it cleans up the source snapshot and rewrites the latest symlink to point to the freshly made copy, if successful.

    I could share my script, if there’s interest, tho it might look a bit messy. Oh, and these rdiff-whatchamacallits probably do the same thing in a more professional manner. I wrote mine to learn rsync.