Ubuntu creating a Backup: preparing
If you create in Ubuntu regular Backups, you should consider some things. Because the best Backup is useless if you lose it by accident. Therefore, pay attention to the following tips.
- Backups should you create on an external hard drive. These are fast and large enough to do Backups, fix and straightforward. It is best to use two external hard drives in parallel. Then you have the failure of a hard drive is still a hedge.
- If you create Backups of smaller amounts of data, are USB Sticks for that. These multiple Backups fit then depending on the data size already. USB flash drives with important data you can trade easily in the Bank safe Deposit or similar store.
- We recommend that you not only to create a Backup. It is smart to have a chronologically different Backups. Because if you find that the file you are looking for is at the last Backup, you can always go back even further.
Hard disk as a storage medium
Ubuntu creating a Backup: how it works
Since Ubuntu has already installed a Tool for Backups, you should use this. So that you can produce very simple data. The in third-party Tools sometimes a bit difficult. You, therefore, dear to the installed Tool and follow these steps.
- You can open the search function of Ubuntu and type "Backup" into the search field. You should get the required Tool is displayed. You start using it.
- You will now see the window with different buttons.
- First of all, you should go to the button "folder to Backup". Now press the little Plus at the bottom, and then select the folder you want to back up.
- Under the menu item "ignore folder" you can specify which folder you want to neglect in the Backups. Usually these are folders such as your Downloads, which contain unimportant files.
- Then select your desired storage media under the "location of backup".
- Now you can create a Backup manually in the browser or a Backup Plan set up. Ubuntu will then automatically create the specified points in time Backups.
Ubuntu's in-house Backup Tool
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