12th April 2017, 2:57
(11th April 2017, 19:07)leszek Wrote: I always used backintime which under the hood uses rsync to sync things up.
But I think this is only available for Linux. It should however be able to also backup data from ntfs partitions (practically all partitions linux can read)
Hi leszek. Thanks for posting this cool advice. For years i used Areca Backup, but it broke a few years ago [anyway i was not happy about its Java dependency, really]. Since then i have used luckyBackup [yes, that's the weird way its Dev spells it], which has been pretty good although rather idiosyncratic [but its development froze in 2014, which has been becoming more & more of concern to me]. Post-Areca i tested several possible candidates & liked none of them til i found lB... but for inexplicable reasons somehow i did not discover BIT at that time.
Reading your mention of it here intrigued me, so i researched it, installed the repo version [1.1.12], liked it, & so have now added its PPA which has upgraded me to the latest release 1.1.20 [includes a critical bugfix, as also have other releases >1.1.12]. I'm just about to erase my lB archives from one of my two backup USB sticks, create the applicable BIT snapshot profile for it, & run it to see if indeed this will become my new backup tool. I feel positive towards it from what i've seen so far.
It's lovely that i keep learning good things here
