Looking for backup software for Ubuntu 14.04

[Torey]

I'm trying to find a somewhat easy to use backup utility for Ubuntu. I'm transferring my Plex server from my main Windows machine to my Ubuntu machine. I currently SyncToy to back up all of my media and any folders I'd like to a separate drive than the rest. I like this software a lot and would like to find something similar if possible. It doesn't have too many options, but it does exactly what I need it to do. The main thing the software will be backing up is LARGE amounts of media files. Some being quite large, up to eight gigabytes in size. The feature I like most is that when I delete/update/add files when the software runs it will go through and remove any deleted and update other files as necessary. Basically just cloning the folder. Any recommendations would be great. Also, it *can be command line only but I'd prefer a graphical interface.

 

Thanks

[Mark77]

Would rsync suit your purposes? 

[LynxThe1st]

Doesn't ubuntu already have this feature in system settings?

I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for sorry, as I've never actually used it myself

[Torey]

7 minutes ago, LynxThe1st said:

Doesn't ubuntu already have this feature in system settings?

I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for sorry, as I've never actually used it myself

 

8 minutes ago, Mark77 said:

Would rsync suit your purposes? 

I'm not sure. I'll check and see quick if it has the right options or not. I guess I just figured it wouldn't have everything I wanted. If it does, I should be able to setup a cronjob with it.

[Torey]

On 4/17/2016 at 8:53 AM, AlexTheRose said:

Use rsync as @Mark77 suggested. It even works across networks and the internet, so if you were to have some sort of cloud solution it would work just as well. This webpage may be of use to you.

So after being busy for a while I'm back to this project. I've transfered all of my data to the Ubuntu box and all of the drives are ext4 now with a linux file system. I just ran my first rsync across two drives that were identical. I'm noticing that it's taking a very long time. On Windows when I used synctoy if nothing was changed between the two it would finish in a couple of seconds. I'm wondering if I ran a second rsync after this first one, would it faster? Or would it be the same as the first scan. If you're curious I ran (rsync -av --delete /dir/dir /dir/dir) 

Anyways, thanks for your help.

 

Edit - I just noticed that I was basically copying /dir/dir into /dir/dir/ instead of setting /dir/dir to /dir/ where it would then sync them instead of just copying stuff over. That's why it was taking so long. After fixing it, it only took a few seconds. =/

[iBurley]

Ubuntu has a built in application called "Deja Dup", the icon for it is a little safe, it makes super simple backups.