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Backup software recommendation? (beehaw.org)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does anyone have any recommendations for good backup software? My use case is pretty simple. I have an external usb drive I want to backup to every so often. Both the source and backup drives are 8TB capacity (I’m not even close to using the full capacity yet)

Normally the backup drive is left unplugged but I want to be able to plug it in run the backup software to copy across anything new then unplug it again for storage.

Simple file backup (not looking to do a full bootable OS drive backup or anything)

Thank you

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Am I the only one out here using Clonezilla? Am I that out of touch?

No it's the children who are wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Don't you have to reboot into it to use it and set up the backup manually every time? That seems like a pain to do daily/weekly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah you do have to do that. I don't backup as regularly as I should. But I use it to make full disk images (including the partition table). Do the other popular ones allow this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Veeam does for sure on a live system, I've also used macrium before. But I don't know if any FOSS projects are that advanced.