Backup advice

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I have fully updated 42.2.
I would like to copy my 100 GB Home directory to another drive as a backup.

When I use Thunar to copy the directory to another drive it will fail with a file or directory not found. It did this twice but I did not write down the file name. Speed of copy seems to be under 2 hrs. I’m not sure of this time because it stops early in the copy.

When I use rsynch from grsynch, the speed is abysmal. It appears to be greater than 8 hours.

I am copying from 1 internal sata to another.

Is there a way to either not have the Thunar copy stop or speed up rsync?

Any help appreciated.

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There is one thing witth rsync you should take into account. It only takes “long” the first time used. When you re-use it to re-sync your backup, it will only transfer changes and thus in the normal case, it will be much quicker then.

3

Thanks…
Once it got past the .cache files, it sped right up.
It finished 118 GB in 90 minutes.
There were some permission errors I have to look at, but nothing really worrying.

4

I use luckybackup in root mode, and yes, the first time is long but 8hours seems too much :slight_smile:

5

In Gnome there is Default Deja-dup, in preferences you can choose where and when to back up

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You don;t need to back cache files they should be excluded they are just temp files that will be recreated