Linux tips & tricks -- 14 tools to backup your Linux box

Linux tips & tricks -- 14 tools to backup your Linux box

If there's one piece of advice you'll hear on every computing advice list, it's backup your computer!
Luckily for Linux users, it's UNIX heritage brings with it a sysadmin's mindset of backup soon and often. This in turn has lead to the availability of a lot of great tools and options for backing up. Even better many of these tools can backup more than just your one Linux box, many can backup the other computers on your network as well, be they Linux, Windows, or Mac.
So check out the list, pick a tool, and get backing up.

Pro Tip:
For a lot of smaller customers and home business users, I take an old, low power PC (eg a Small Form Factor) or even laptop, throw a USB 3.0 card in it, and grab two of the same Terabyte or larger external USB 3.0 drives from whoever has them on sale this week. Then set them up to automount by UUID, configure them as RAID 1 (Mirrored), and install Amanda on the system to let it operate as a backup server for critical files. IE "My Documents" on Windows systems, and "/home/*" on Linux systems.
Be sure to setup SMARTD on the server box to check the drives regularly and to e-mail you if it finds any issues.
If you use an old PC/Laptop you already have, and Hard Drives on a good sale, you can setup a pretty decent backup server for under $200. Money well spent.
In fact these days, the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ could even serve in this role reasonably well, as long as you run your backups at night and use compression on the client side to minimize bandwidth, USB utilization.
Whatever hardware you use, plug it all into a small APC UPS and setup the comm cable so the system can auto-shutdown in the event of a power failure.
https://www.tecmint.com/linux-system-backup-tools/