====== Backup Solutions for Linux ======

===== Overview =====

The simple good solution is 

My preferences:
  - Areca - good balance between simplicity and "feature-richness"
  - Back In Time  - like Deja Dup but Deja Dup a little bit too simple
  - Bacula  - very mighty but also difficult and complicated
  - Deja Dup - too simple?

===== Areca =====

  * Good balance between simplicity and "feature-richness". 
  * Open source
  * Java / Eclipse ("GWT")
  * Only one point is not good: the last version is dated 2015.

[[http://www.areca-backup.org|Official site]]

===== Back In Time =====

Simple and good. A little bit better than Deja Dup (Ubuntu's standard solution).

[[https://github.com/bit-team/backintime#back-in-time|GitHub repo]]

[[https://backintime.readthedocs.io/en/latest/|Official documentation]]

[[https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Back_In_Time/|German documentation]]


At the moment I'm using Back In Time: ''/media/diskstation/backup/backintime/backintime''

Sometimes it wants a password. I'm used all my password but did not understood whether it worked. 
Last time I've used ''ya...08''


===== BackupPC =====

Seems to be good (and not very complicated), but the configuration can be made only through WebUI. So it will be necessary to run a web server.

[[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BackupPC]]
===== Bacula =====

Very good and very feature rich solutions. 

Contra: it is too complicated. Documentation says that it is necessary to read 6 captures for "Quick start".  

[[http://blog.bacula.org|Official site]]
===== Duplicity =====

Solution for command line.

[[http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/index.html|Official site]]

[[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DuplicityBackupHowto|Duplicity Backup HowTo]]


===== Deja Dup =====

Roughly to say: it is a UI for Duplicity.

[[https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/DejaDup?action=show&redirect=DejaDup|Official site]]

===== Simple Backup Suite (sbackup) =====

https://sourceforge.net/projects/sbackup/

Last update 2013


===== Kbackup =====

http://kbackup.sourceforge.net

https://sourceforge.net/projects/kbackup/

Last update 2011


===== Links =====

[[http://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgaben/2016/03/bitparade/|Backupsoftware für den Desktop im Vergleich]]

[[https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Datensicherung/]]

[[https://www.tecmint.com/linux-system-backup-tools/]]