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Fedora really needs a backup tool (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works to c/fedora@lemmy.ml

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Hi everyone,

I’m a happy Fedora 38 user on my Surface Go 1.

In fact I’m so happy with it that I just wanted to clone the whole thing with Clonezilla and put it on my girlfriend’s MacBook Pro which has reached end of life support for MacOs.

Sadly on the Surface Go it’s almost impossible to boot from an USB drive (had to rely on windows recovery to do it the first time, might be usb-a to usb-c adaptor related) and I’ll really have to do a clean install on her Mac.

For such situations, I find it crazy that you don’t have an effective graphic tool to fo an easy backup. Especially because Fedora is so great for everything else.

You could say, use Timeshift, but it would mean doing some alterations I’m not at ease with as I don’t want to end up destroying the system I’m trying to backup and clone.

Does anyone know if it’s on the developers roadmap?

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes! BTRFS is awesome and there is BTRBK to do backups.

You can do a lot, backup only some subvolumes and way more, it supports deduplication and copy on write, which is worlds apart regular updating systems

A good GUI for that is really needed. Currently just using rsync as its pretty easy with some arguments

rsync --av --compress --partial --progress --update --sparse --delete --exclude "folder1" --exclude "folder2" /FROM/DIR /TO/DIR