Comments on: 25 Outstanding Backup Utilities for Linux Systems in 2024

By: Rangjut

Rangjut — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:36:59 +0000

This would be much more useful if you took the time to narrow down the choices to a few truly “best” backup tools. This article reads more like a compendium of whatever can be found through search. “Best N Apps for…” doesn’t save the reader much time or effort when N is large.

By: Christian Buhtz

Christian Buhtz — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:16:41 +0000

Hello, Regarding the correct name of "Back In Time," we, as the new maintenance team (who took over in 2022), have decided to label it "Back In Time," or abbreviated as "BIT." Previously, the name was labeled inconsistently.

By: Richard Steven Hack

Richard Steven Hack — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 02:36:53 +0000

In reply to Richard Steven Hack. Update: I'm now on openSUSE Tumbleweed - and yes, as predicted, a snapshot broke the functionality of fwbackups. Fortunately, flatpak to the rescue! I installed the flatpak version and all is now well again. I've also downloaded FreeFileSync as an alternative should anything finally wreck fwbackups. With FreeFileSync I can resume one-way file syncing, which is essentially how I use fwbackups. This way I can restore individual files without having to restore an entire backup.

By: Roberto Martín

Roberto Martín — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 10:41:55 +0000

May I request that you add “XSIBackup-App” Linux backup tool to your list?.

It has a big advantage over many of the other ones, it is distro agnostic. It connects to the root file system via SSHFS and allows to backup directory trees, databases or virtual machines.

It also allows to run pre and post backup job scripts to prepare the job and it’s free without any file number or file size limitation.

By: WAnderson

WAnderson — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 23:06:26 +0000

One small omission is the Borgbackup graphical client - Vorta - available in several Linux desktops 'repositories' and/or Flatpak systems. Fairly easy to understand and setup, up once the server portion is installed on a remote machine. Although a systems administrator, not a geek, I have used Borg on several client small networks - max. 15 clients on max 5 servers, with very satisfactory results. The lack of a Windows client is a setback for some, but one client installed Windows 10 in a VM on a Mac machine to satisfy his desire for using Borg-only backup.