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Which is Most TimeMachine-like Backup Program for Ubuntu?

rated 0 times [ 0] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 39442 / 2 Years ago, thu, march 10, 2022, 1:19:05

I know this article but there is no comparison to OSX's TimeMachine.
I would like to find a backup software which is about the same as TimeMachine or better.

I would like to have such a software which can use some format of HDD which is suitable for big files (50 GB) in Linux.
I noticed that

OSX format of HFS+ is not supported by Linux distros, since no maintainer of HFS in Linux since 2006

NTFS format made by Debian 8.1 is not supported by older Linux distros

If Windows support, good.

Try with the Backups (Deja Dup) software

I did start the backup first time but I wanted to go to lunch after backup was running already two hours of just 10 GB files.
So it gave me this after the lunch

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which is really insane, reported now here, since the software is not designed to have pauses in doing the backups.

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answered 2 Years ago untroo · Accepted Answer

I do not recommend Deja-dup because it is not close to Time-Machine in features, and is unstable with many filesystems. I have not managed to get proposals of Mitch sufficient in features for my needs. They break too much.

Niceness of the Process

Nice will lower the cpu priority, freeing cpu power for other processes, ionice will reduce the disk priority, freeing the disk i/o for other processes).
Use tar czf with nice as described here separately for the system and home such that you can easily work vertical with your systems in many projects

# http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/291720/16920

sudo nice tar czf /media/masi/ntfsDisc/backup_system_24.6.2016.tar.gz --exclude=/home 

    --exclude=/media --exclude=/dev 

    --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys 

    --exclude=/run --exclude=/proc /



sudo nice tar czf /media/masi/ntfsDiscSami/backup_home_24.6.2016.tar.gz $HOME/

Limit CPU consumption of the Process

Assume you have a limited system etc ultrabook with 20 Mb/s read/second.
If you do not know it, use

# http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/291713/16920

tar cf - $HOME/ | pv | gzip > media/masi/ntfsDisc/testbackup.tar.gz

Then, limit your CPU and do

# http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/292659/16920

tar cf - $HOME/ | pv -L 10m | gzip > /media/masi/ntfsDisc/testbackup.tar.gz

Move Computation to GPU

TODO Future