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I currently mount several Synology NAS folders using fstab and am looking for a reliable way to backup to them from my machine.

I've dabbled with rsync before and see that luckyBackup is included in a fresh install of MX Linux. There also seem to be several other utilities mentioned online such as Back in Time, Bacula, Duplicity etc.

Is luckyBackup included by default because it is well endorsed by the community? Before I spend a lot of time setting it all up, I am curious what others are doing.

I have used that a lot, but Deja Dup (deja-dup) is pretty easy to configure so now I use that alongside.

I have had bad luck twice with luckybackup, unluckybackup for me.
I noticed it was deleting files, when I was doing a back-up.

At least one other person her on the forum has had similar problems.

So, what to use? I found Grsync on antiX, and it works great, exactly as expected, and the user interface is simple and easy to use.
It is in the MX repository.

Jerry3904 wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2019 2:49 pm I have used that a lot, but Deja Dup (deja-dup) is pretty easy to configure so now I use that alongside.

Just tried Deja Dup for the first time and I agree. For data which I have on a separate partition I back up to Dropbox and Google Drive.

entropyfoe wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2019 3:01 pm I have had bad luck twice with luckybackup, unluckybackup for me.
I noticed it was deleting files, when I was doing a back-up.

At least one other person her on the forum has had similar problems.

So, what to use? I found Grsync on antiX, and it works great, exactly as expected, and the user interface is simple and easy to use.
It is in the MX repository.

Well that would rule out luckyBackup for me. I guess I will try Grsync and Déjà Dup.

Just saying that luckyBackup has always worked for me.

entropyfoe wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2019 3:01 pm I have had bad luck twice with luckybackup, unluckybackup for me.
I noticed it was deleting files, when I was doing a back-up.

At least one other person her on the forum has had similar problems.

So, what to use? I found Grsync on antiX, and it works great, exactly as expected, and the user interface is simple and easy to use.
It is in the MX repository.

When you say, "deleting files", do you mean it was mirroring your backup to your current drive, so if you had deleted file ABC in your main drive, luckybackup would remove it from your backup location as well?

Now I am curious also. I am using LuckyBackup now without a problem ... as far as I know! Is there something I should be looking out for?

When you say, "deleting files", do you mean it was mirroring your backup to your current drive, so if you had deleted file ABC in your main drive, luckybackup would remove it from your backup location as well?

By default, Lucky Backup is configured to, "Delete files on the Destination that no longer exist on the Source."

I always uncheck that parameter so files that I choose to remove on the Source, will still exist on the backup until I physically remove it from the backup.

Richard wrote: Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:37 am

When you say, "deleting files", do you mean it was mirroring your backup to your current drive, so if you had deleted file ABC in your main drive, luckybackup would remove it from your backup location as well?

By default, Lucky Backup is configured to, "Delete files on the Destination that no longer exist on the Source."

I always uncheck that parameter so files that I choose to remove on the Source, will still exist on the backup until I physically remove it from the backup.

This makes more sense with respect to files being deleted. I assume you have used luckyBackup extensively; if so, have you been satisfied with it?