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I've tried it a few times, once per fresh install I guess, never got it working, gave up.

DAE LuckyBackup? It's sooooo good! Cross-OS support, dev is a nice bloke, looks good, super easy to set up, intuitive.

charles@x200:~$ apt show luckybackup

Package: luckybackup

Version: 0.4.8-1

Installed-Size: 1,489 kB

Maintainer: Patrick Matthäi <>

Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libqt4-network (>= 4:4.5.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.5.3), libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1), luckybackup-data (= 0.4.8-1), rsync, menu

Homepage: http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/

Tag: admin::backup, implemented-in::c++, interface::x11, role::program, uitoolkit::qt, x11::application

Section: utils Priority: optional Download-Size: 562 kB APT-Manual-Installed: yes APT-Sources: http://192.168.1.101/ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages

Description: rsync-based GUI data backup utility luckyBackup is an application that backs-up and/or synchronizes any directories with the power of rsync. Its main features are: backup, safety, synchronization, exclude/only include options, allows custom rsync options, remote connections, restore and dry-run operations, scheduling, profiles and command line mode. . It is simple to use, fast (transfers over only changes made and not all data), safe (keeps your data safe by checking all declared directories before proceeding in any data manipulation ), reliable and fully customizable.

luckyBackup is a nice gui for rsync which lets you create repeatable tasks. It sounds like you want the "snapshots" feature, which is something I don't actually use right now but I'm sure it works fine.

I recently installed GalliumOS myself, and was thinking along the same lines.

Haven't used it for a while, but but Lucky Backup used to work pretty well. Alternatively, there is DejaDup which is the backup tool used in mainstream Ubuntu by default, and is basically a GUI front-end to duplicity.