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What to use for backup?

Asked by Tommy Pollák

Since upgrading to Ubuntu 16.10 the memory leak described in reviews of Backups (déja-dup) causes this and duplicity to crash after all memory has been allocated.

My set-up is a laptop with dual boot and a simple NAS (MyBookLive).

In addition to duplicity (and déja-dup) I have explored the following alternatives:

rsync
tar
sbackup
backup-manager
fwbackups
dump
Back in Time
Mondorescue

but none seems appropriate.

How do others backup their systems?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

I have a cron'd rsync to USB once a week

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Tommy Pollák (tpollak) said : 		#2

So let me try a related issue.
2017-01-02 at 22:05 (CET) cron starts my backup with rsync. When I checked the screen around 08:00 in the morning on teh 2017-01-03 everything was OK. The job had finished. But 1 hour later Ubuntu crashed "Kernel panic - not syncing: Out of memory and no killable processes ...".
This seems to be the problem that has haunted me since installation of 16.10. I thought it was related to duplicity, but this failure points definitely in an other direction. But which? How can I find out? The programs that were running were a lot of system programs, MySQL, MediaWiki ... Thunderbird and Terminal.

Regards

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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