6 completely FREE backup utilities for Linux!

Here are 6 free and open source backup tools to ensure all your data is always safe and available. Think of it life free insurance which you need to spend a little bit of time setting up and will serve you incredibly well in the long run.
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Background Score: • TrackTribe - On The Rocks
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:20 6. Rsync
05:03 5. Rclone
06:27 4. FreeFileSync
07:49 3. Timeshift
09:41 2. Syncthing
12:24 Honorable Mentions
15:55 1. Pika Backup
16:53 Outro

[@muratcebir]

Definetly.. Absolutely and the only Pika Backup

[@oraz.]

Timeshift worked pretty well for me

[@tonywise198]

I like that you admit to borking your system! Backups are essential. Everyone has (or will) have a HDD/SSD failure or bork their drive one day. It only takes one key press!!

[@jmckey]

Similarly I have to admit to accidentally wiping the flatpak repository (var/lib/flatpak) when I was trying to change it to point to a copy in my home directory (my var partition is dumb tiny for a prior Debian bookworm install). And I was fairly early on in the setup process of my laptop environment so I hadn’t really gotten to backups being setup yet. Now I’m. Gun shy and won’t run rm -rf without adding the -i. (Solid advice I found after this booboo). And I used to WORK for a backup software company.
I was able to work around the problem though. Searched my history for the 5 or 6 flatpaks I had installed so far and redid them with the new symbolic link to my home dir. worked like a charm. Now my flarpaks can be modular like my home directory.

[@Martin-lc1sk]

Nuked your drive....you are one of us 😎

[@dragonballjiujitsu]

I use a combo of TimeShift and deja dup plus a manual rsync run to keep my backups.

[@visaocomum]

Pika--- works for me ... but I like your comments on GIT ... i neeed a versioning control option since im thinking of taking my google sheets off the cloud for privacy... but at the moment dont know what i can use for versioning control apart from GIT which i learn´t about from you... thanks

[@tonywise198]

WARNING Timeshift EXCLUDES your Home and root files by DEFAULT.

[@AverageNerdTalks]

You're right! It's something to pay attention to when setting it up.