I am migrating from gnome to kde. On gnome I was using dejadup to backup to a local nas and a remote site. What shall be a good backup strategy using kde.
I’m not sure why you think you need to change your backup strategy because you changed your DE. What do you think is specific enough about your previous Gnome setup that makes you think you need to find a new solution?
I do not need to change it. But I will like to use a full kde solution and not one that depends on the efforts that the kde community make to run gnome program
Alternatives: https://alternativeto.net/software/deja-dup/?platform=linux
Arco Backup (and all the other CLI-based options) looks to be the only one that doesn’t have GTK dependencies. KBackup is an option, but there doesn’t seem to be any de-duplication features.
plasma comes with a backup utility (in the system tray) that is basically a GUI front end to bup command line program.
it works pretty well and is reliable if you turn on all the verification options, but it does not (yet) have any pruning features so you need to write your own script for that or prune backups manually… one neat thing about it is you can schedule backups based on activity (time using the desktop), which i’ve not seen in any other utility.
i also use backintime for daily backups because it can create versioned backups as well, but instead of an opaque database, your files on the backup can all be browsed in the file manager (dolphin) if you choose (no dependence on the backup program to access files).
I second looking at Kup backup, your distro may include it by default, and will show in System Settings as “Backups.”. It does not support remote (cloud) backup, however, and you do still need mount your NAS share to your fstab, iirc.
Kup provides both sync style and incremental style of backup, and can have multiple plans set up.
But if it works great for you, there really is no reason to stop using dejadup. Sure, it may not fit the look and style of Plasma, but that is only cosmetic. Other than appearance, there is nothing special about running a Gnome/Gtk application in KDE, really.
No need to change.
Have you tested that you can restore a file from backup?
that is why I am moving away from backblaze, they go out of their way to made the restore dificult (or impossible) on Linux. If you need a lot of files and need a hard drive the one they send do not work on Linux (no even could you use a windows on virtual machine) They manage to been unable to unzip a file without Windows or Apple
I second Vorta as a front end to borg. I use it with my Tuxedo OS laptop, which runs on KDE Wayland. It was setup once and just works in the background. A plus is it has encryption and deduplication. Backup goes to a NAS and the NAS is backed up into the cloud.
Moving from GNOME to KDE is a great transition! For backups, Kup Backup System is the native KDE equivalent to Deja Dup and handles both local directories and remote destinations smoothly using rsync or bup. Another fantastic, robust option is Kup + BorgBackup (or using Borgmatic directly via CLI), which gives you encrypted, deduplicated backups to both your local NAS and a remote server. Welcome to the KDE side!
Why would you try to do that?
Why the Flatpak version? I have been using Borg & Vorta for years, but the versions of Arch-Repos. I’m just asking to understand.
The versions of borg and vorta aren’t the most recent on many distributions.
This is the case with openSUSE Leap.
With Flatpak, you get a consistent and up-to-date package.
Of course, with Arch, you don’t have that kind of problem.