I am currently using EndeavourOS for my laptop. Is there a backup solution that is easy to use, and can be run from the EndeavourOS install media without internet? (RSync is included, but no other backup tools are included, to my knowledge.) I don’t want to use another ISO due to space constraints on my USB.

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    Borg backup. You should be able to install it on your Live session, then restore to the target mount point.

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    Timeshift. Easy to set up. Easy to use, only takes a couple of minutes to ‘re-set’ your system back, if you break it. If you want just to backup files, documents etc then Cron. I use both. They are standard Linux programs and easy to use

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    Restic is my favorite, but you really would need to be familiar with the terminal, cron tasks, etc. to consider it a viable option.

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    Have you looked to see if rdiff-backup is included? It works off of rsync but provides incremental backups and restores. On my servers I set up a script that excludes system folders like /dev, network mounts, and the log files, but it grabs pretty much everything else. Once the script works just set up a cron job and forget about it.

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      Sounds like a well thought out solution, but we need proper programs which can handle backups, like some mentioned in this thread.

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          Its not about features, its about “duct tape scripts” are rarely a solution for anybody else than the author, imo. Borgbackup seems like the proper suggestion here for the OP.

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    I don’t want to use another ISO due to space constraints on my USB.

    What? A 32GB thumb drive is under $10…

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      I tried Backintime and Timeshift recently.

      In Backintime I added the dirs I wanted to backup and where to make the backups, pressed “run” and it said there’s nothing to do. Uninstalled. Later on I found out it had added stuff to my crontab even though I never asked it for a recurring schedule.

      Timeshift started by asking for the root password right off the bat. Uninstalled. Like, I know it will want root access eventually but at least buy me dinner first. How do I know what a program I’ve never used before wants to do to my system?

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          They are often incremental but they’re still not a backup.

          They are local restore points. That’s better than nothing at all as a local copy can protect against a very limited kind of data hazard and quite handy indeed but not a backup. A backup is always an independent copy.

          If your entire machine was to blow up, a backup must be able to retain your data. A copy on the same disks will not.

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            Now I get your point, sorry. You can use both Timeshift and BackInTime as snapshot tools, but also configure them to create snapshots on a different drive, making it an actual backup.

            I for example use Timeshift in Rsync mode for that reason even though I’m also using Btrfs, which Timeshift supports, but only for non-backup snapshots.

            Sorry for the confusion, I guess when suggesting both those tools one always has to specify that you need to save snapshots on a secondary drive for it to be a backup.

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    Not a recommendation per se, but you can use any backup software as long as you can edit your live iso. For example puting the restic binary into /opt

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    Idk about Endeavour but I use Duplicity and don’t currently regret it.

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    I use backintime and have for a number of years. It is incremental with unchanged files being hard-linked and makes it easy to restore files if needed.

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    Are you already using something like ventoy, or do you refrain from using another usb stick?