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To: Pollard
Here's the left pane of backintime that shows the various restore dates available. Because of the way that the program uses rsync, it uses hardlinks for files that don't change, so it is extraordinarily efficient from a space standpoint. Every single backup is effectively a full backup, so you don't have to hunt for stuff that you might want to restore. This program actually works really well with removable drives. If I had a different drive attached to the same mount point, it would simply show different restore dates.

As you can tell, I'm a big fan of this, because it has saved my rear end on several occasions. Sometimes my fingers are too darned fat!

41 posted on 08/26/2020 1:47:39 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: zeugma

Yep, Timshift is almost exactly the same thing. One or the other is probably rebranded off the other. I am finding out there is a lot of that in the Linux world... :)


43 posted on 08/26/2020 2:19:32 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: zeugma

Already installed Grsync. Will try it sometime. Thanks


46 posted on 08/26/2020 2:22:32 PM PDT by Pollard (whatever)
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