deja-dup desktop backup
I've been messing with finding a decent desktop backup application this weekend to run on all the family laptops. I thought backintime would do the trick, but it turned out not to work over sshfs (due to the lack of hardlink support) and doing backups to the same disk that holds the data seems like a bad idea to me.
So, today I found an article on deja-dup in my RSS feed, installed it and it's wonderful. It has a built in scheduler and supports all filesystems that gvfs does, but adds nice things like encryption for your backups and it integrates very well with Nautilus.
I can just select a file or folder and revert it to the state of any of the listed backups, which is exactly the functionality I've been looking for.
Just a shame that I didn't find it in the first hours of looking... but I am happy now :-)
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2 comments postedWell, it looks great, but I cannot make it connect to s3 - it keeps coming up with a duplicity error of network not available. There is no help on how to fix this. Its not the s3 account details, because it works perfectly from the firefox plugin.
I must be doing something wrong, but what?
I, too, have allowed Déjà Dup the honour of backing up my data. It's been really fantastic!
There's a ppa, too, over at https://edge.launchpad.net/~deja-dup-team
My only issue with the scheduler thing is (at the moment) it relies on a cron job to start it up, and if the target location isn't present at that moment it throws an ugly error message and gives up. Bit of a problem for backing up to external hard drives. (Actually, I think the whole "backing up to external hard drives" use scenario could use some additional tinkering. It can be kind of strange about them).