05-26-2018, 05:19 AM
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BackinTime is long gone but fortunately is still in the 3.x repos. I use it and it works well. TimeVault is more or less abandoned. Mint has its own backup tool which is user file oriented, not sure what adding Mint repos would do to LL. Deja Dup is a well known user file backup system.
There are various backup utilities in synaptic, it's just that system backup and user file backup have different tools.
Quote: TimeShift is similar to applications like rsnapshot, BackInTime and TimeVault but with different goals. It is designed to protect only system files and settings. User files such as documents, pictures and music are excluded. This ensures that your files remains unchanged when you restore your system to an earlier date. If you need a tool to backup your documents and files please take a look at the excellent BackInTime application which is more configurable and provides options for saving user files.
BackinTime is long gone but fortunately is still in the 3.x repos. I use it and it works well. TimeVault is more or less abandoned. Mint has its own backup tool which is user file oriented, not sure what adding Mint repos would do to LL. Deja Dup is a well known user file backup system.
There are various backup utilities in synaptic, it's just that system backup and user file backup have different tools.