Hi,
I currently use a program called copywhiz on windows that backs up any files or directories created after a certain date to a usb hard drive and runs once a day.
I want to transition fully to Linux. Is there any easy to use software that works on Linux that can do this?
P.S. I have tried creating a bash script to do this but for some reason it has trouble with the date part. So a software solution would be prefered.
I use Linux Mint and love the automatic backup tool that’s built in: timeshift
Timeshift is for a system backup, in case your system broke for whatever reason you could get back quickly to your work without rebuilding and reconfiguring it. It’s not ment for backing up user files.
It’s built on top of rsync, you can easily configure it to make a backup of any arbitrary set of files
You can use it like that, but it’s not a primary focus I think.
That’s true, sure. I still find it a convenient tool, so I thought OP might find it convenient for this use-case even if that’s not the primary purpose
It wasn’t designed for that. Use backintime instead, or any number of other backup tools.
A system backup would include user files though, so that would be fine.
Timeshift explicitly omits /home by default. “System” here means the operating system files not all the files on the machine.