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Deja Dup is a simple – yet powerful – backup tool included with Ubuntu.
It offers the power of rsync with incremental backups, encryption, scheduling, and support for remote services.
Its a graphical frontend to Duplicity, which itself usesrsync.
It offers the power of rsync with a simple interface.
Youll find it named Backup in the System group of icons.
you could also launch it by searching for Backup from the Dash.
Setup
Deja Dups main screen summarizes your backup options.
By default, Deja Dup backs up your Home directory, ignoring the Trash and Downloads folders.
It puts the backup in yourUbuntu Oneaccount.
If you want to enable automatic backups, dont do it yet customize your backup configs first.
From the Storage pane, it’s possible for you to customize where Deja Dup puts your backups.
Deja Dups encryption protects your data with a password you provide.
The local folder option can back up your data to an external drive or other local storage machine.
Store important files in the Downloads folder?
Remove it from the Folders to ignore list.
Dont want to back up your entire Home folder?
Delete the Home folder from the Folders to back up list and add the folders you care about.
Deja Dup will automatically delete old backups when it needs space.
The backup process may take some time, but each subsequent backup will be faster.
Deja Dup performs incremental backups, which means that it only records the changes from the last backup.
Thats the power of rsync in action.
Youll be prompted to password-protect your backup.
The password you use here will encrypt your data so no one else can view it.
This is particularly important if youre storing your backup online.
You may want to write your password down you cant recover it if you forget it.
Next, pick the date the backup was taken.
Deja Dup restores files to their original locations by default.
If you specified a password while creating the backup, youll have to enter it to restore files.
Restoring Individual Files
you’re free to also restore individual files from a backup.
you might also restore files that have been deleted by clicking the File menu and selecting Restore Missing Files.
Deja Dup will scan your back ups for files that were in the current folder, but arent anymore.
it’s possible for you to restore them with just a few clicks.
Backups are essential every computer user should do them.
Deja Dup finally makes this easy out of the box on Ubuntu.
Deja Dup is included with Ubuntu 11.10 and later versions.
If youre using another Linux distribution, youll probably find Deja Dup in your Linux distributions package repositories.
