Backup apps

• npbackup
  • based on Restic

GUI apps

• List of backup GUIs
• restic list of similar apps
• Kopia
• Timeshift System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots

Pika backup

• https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.World.PikaBackup
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/pika-backup
• Based on Borg backup
• No S3 backend support, since Borg doesn't support any S3 backends neither

Deja Dup

• https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DejaDup
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/deja-dup
• https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_Dup/
• Traditionally based on duplicity, but from v4.3 on, it supports restic as backend
• Still, no S3 restic support

Debug deja-dup:

DEJA_DUP_DEBUG=1 deja-dup

Duplicacy

• UI is a paid product:/

Duplicati

• Github
• Much slower than Kopia

Btrfs snapshots

• btrbk
  • Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes
  • btrbk is awesome
    • Why btrbk might be better than snapper
• snapper CLI and GUI app for btrfs snapshots

Backup with tar

Create a Gzip archive:

tar -czvf backup.$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S).tgz /etc/