Are there any backup utilities for Lubuntu 18.04?

Question

My hard disk recently started doing some weird things like shutting down at random times. I checked GNOME Disks and found out that it is likely to fail soon. So, I started searching for backup utilities. However, the only thing that Software Center showed me was GNOME Disks.

So, I tried to create an image of my partition, but then I realized that my backup disk does not have that much space (my Lubuntu installation is on a 80 GB partition, 27 GB used, tried creating an image on a 75 GB disk).

I tried to find Timeshift (the backup utility that is used in Linux Mint), but to no avail. Neither in Software Center, nor with apt (could not find package timeshift).

So are there any backup utilities available except GNOME Disks? Because I don't want to spend 1h 30min for the whole /home folder to copy.

See https://askubuntu.com/questions/209512/lubuntu-and-backup-software — user68186, Oct 07 '18 at 17:03

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 08 '23 at 22:20

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Install Timeshift like this:

sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install timeshift

Visit this link to learn how to use it or do a search yourself - your call

https://itsfoss.com/backup-restore-linux-timeshift/

edited Nov 08 '23 at 22:20

muru

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answered Oct 07 '18 at 16:39

It worked! I have a complete snapshot of my system now! – na-no. Oct 08 '18 at 15:42

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 08 '23 at 21:18

I am sure Timeshift is an excellent solution from the previous answer, however for the sake of completeness, I thought of suggesting Deja Dup. This is the most common Ubuntu program for this task. Deja Dup has adopted the simpler name Backups in recent releases like 22.04 (see https://askubuntu.com/a/1490425/222247).

You can install it from the Software application:

You can also install it from the Synaptic Package Manager if you have it installed:

Are there any backup utilities for Lubuntu 18.04?

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