I’ve tried many commerical and FLOSS backup software applications and services including Dropbox, Spider Oak, CrashPlan+, Amazon S3, Google Drive, etc. and I have to say that Deja-Dup is the best by far. It’s clean, simple, easy to use and it features strong public cryptography that you can set in your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf file. It’s fast too with blazing fast backup and restore performance. If you have a large capacity hard disk drive and you choose a local backup to that disk drive, then it’s free of charge as well. I’ve decided to switch to Deja-Dup because it’s the best FLOSS backup software application that I have tried and it just works right out of the box. It’s included in the OpenSuSE software repositories and I love it. I’m backing up my entire /home BtrFS partition and I have had no problems thus far. I have a high capacity Western Digital My Passport 2 TB Super Speed USB 3 Portable external hard disk drive. I have a Hitachi Travelstar 5K1500 1.5 TB SATA-3 32 MB cache 5,400 internal laptop hard disk drive. I have a System76 Lemur Ultra Thin (lemu4) notebook PC with OpenSuSE Tumbleweed 64 bit. Deja-Dup makes it so simple and easy to backup my folders and files each week and I can keep my backups forever if I want to do that. It’s really good! I should be done with my backup in a couple of hours overnight. I’m really looking forward to using Deja-Dup more often each week.
wellywu wrote:
> I’ve tried many commerical
SPAM
Rule #1 If you have to tell me it’s awesome, it probably isn’t.
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 08:45:19 +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
> wellywu wrote:
>> I’ve tried many commerical
>
> SPAM
Please, if you think a post is spam, don’t reply to it - use the report
button in the web interface to do so.
FWIW, I checked this out, and it’s not a commercial product; it’s a GNOME
Project application.
That said - Wellywu - the “help” forums are for asking for help, not for
posting testimonials. Something like this is better placed in the
general-chit-chat forum, after consideration for whether or not it might
be considered spam.
As such, I’ll move it. NNTP users, please take note.
Jim
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This thread has been moved. Root post quoted for the benefit of NNTP users. In the thread, I noted that the software mentioned appears to be part of the GNOME project, so this isn’t considered spam, but it is not a request for help and as such, does not belong in the “help” forums.
Jim
I have a couple USB WD drivesd, terabyte size - backups are a snap - what good is cloud storage for a home user? Why is the cloud superior
to a $80 USB drive?
No, it isn’t spam.
I finally understand this thread.
I was running 13.1RC1, and a popup appeared asking me to setup my backup options. I didn’t need to do that, but I hit the setup button anyway to see what this was all about.
It turns out that the popup was from Deja-Dup.
It turns out that Deja-Dup is a standard component of Gnome, as installed in 13.1
Apparently, it is set to automatically run, even though I was logged into KDE.
In future, I will have to remember to unselect Deja-Dup when installing Gnome.
On 2013-10-25 19:26, BSDuser wrote:
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> I have a couple USB WD drivesd, terabyte size - backups are a snap -
> what good is cloud storage for a home user? Why is the cloud superior
> to a $80 USB drive?
Cloud is useless to me, with 1Mb bandwidth.
The advantage would be no maintenance and access everywhere.
Disadvantage is lost privacy.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
Isn’t that a bug to be reported in the Pre-Release/Beta forum?
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 17:26:02 +0000, BSDuser wrote:
> I have a couple USB WD drivesd, terabyte size - backups are a snap -
> what good is cloud storage for a home user? Why is the cloud superior
> to a $80 USB drive?
Access from anywhere - done properly, you have a good chance at privacy
(encrypt before uploading, for example), and high availability/redundancy.
For example, I use Dropbox to back up certain work-related data. It’s
not sensitive enough that I need to encrypt it, but occasionally I’ll
accidentally overwrite a file (let’s say we’re talking about files that I
create new ones based on old ones by opening the old one, modifying it,
and saving it. Sometimes I forget to do “save as” and save over the old
one.
A local backup would work as well, but being able to go back to an
earlier revision in Dropbox is pretty easy, too.
Jim
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It’s unwanted (by me). But that does not make it a bug.
The Gnome application “tracker” also starts in KDE. And I think “parcellite” does, too.
It’s also a good idea to have a copy off-site. A fire, earthquake, etc., could destroy everything you have. Personally, I encrypt everything I upload.
On 2013-10-25 22:06, chief sealth wrote:
> It’s also a good idea to have a copy off-site.
I would take days to upload.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 20:28:08 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2013-10-25 22:06, chief sealth wrote:
>> It’s also a good idea to have a copy off-site.
>
> I would take days to upload.
Just because that’s your situation doesn’t mean it’s wrong for everyone,
though.
Jim
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Must remember to also copy myself off-site in case that happens, but skip the encryption as too dangerous. 
For some reason that made me think of David Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986) - IMDb :silly:
Hehe. Now that’s being prepared.
I finally got my backup done. It only took 24 hours to complete. It was simple and easy to do. I have CrashPlan+ and Dropbox, but I decided to forgo the cloud backup services as they take several long months to complete the online backups. Deja-Dup is the only GUI frontend that provides encrypted backups in the standard GNU/Linux software repositories. I actually prefer it for its encryption strength (which can be configured in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf) and speed. This reminds me of Apple’s Time Machine backup, but it’s simpler and less features rich and it’s FLOSS so it’s cross-platform. Thanks for reading.