04-10-2014, 05:50 PM
Postscript
Looked at luckybackup. Has had good reviews but not for me as does file copies so good for keeping an exact mirror copy at file level on another disk.
At the moment I've chosen Clonezilla for occassional partition backup. That include the /home partition with all the hidden files with setting.
For daily backup I've chosen Dupliciti 1.3.4. One snag with Dupliciti is that it has to be running to do it's scheduled backups. I thought it a pain to have it running all day long just to run a daily backup (I use alt+tab a lot so it going to be another running process to skip through). But I managed to get Cron to fire up Dupliciti - many sites say it can't be done as Dupliciti is a GUI but I found this works:
Actually this was defined through the GUI Gnome Schedule 2.1.1 setting the task to X-application (though I see on opening Gnome Schedule it has revert to showing default)
After Dupliciti starts at 6pm and pops up it's a sign to close down my applications and go and have a break
The Dupliciti scheduled backups start just afterwards.
Long term Dupliciti is being completely rewritten as version 2 and will stop using full and incremental backups and instead use a life long pool system. Seems a bit scary
but I guess is more suited to backing up to the cloud.
Alan
Looked at luckybackup. Has had good reviews but not for me as does file copies so good for keeping an exact mirror copy at file level on another disk.
At the moment I've chosen Clonezilla for occassional partition backup. That include the /home partition with all the hidden files with setting.
For daily backup I've chosen Dupliciti 1.3.4. One snag with Dupliciti is that it has to be running to do it's scheduled backups. I thought it a pain to have it running all day long just to run a daily backup (I use alt+tab a lot so it going to be another running process to skip through). But I managed to get Cron to fire up Dupliciti - many sites say it can't be done as Dupliciti is a GUI but I found this works:
Code:
0 18 * * * export DISPLAY=:0.0 && /usr/bin/duplicati 2> /home/logs/scheduler.stderr # JOB_ID_2Actually this was defined through the GUI Gnome Schedule 2.1.1 setting the task to X-application (though I see on opening Gnome Schedule it has revert to showing default)
After Dupliciti starts at 6pm and pops up it's a sign to close down my applications and go and have a break
The Dupliciti scheduled backups start just afterwards. Long term Dupliciti is being completely rewritten as version 2 and will stop using full and incremental backups and instead use a life long pool system. Seems a bit scary
but I guess is more suited to backing up to the cloud. Alan