I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Back In Time[0], especially since a lot of people have mentioned rsync. Back In Time is basically just a GUI wrapper around

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Back In Time[0], especially since a lot of people have mentioned rsync. Back In Time is basically just a GUI wrapper around rsync that manages snapshots for you. I used to have an rsync script that did the same thing manually, but it's great to have a tool that manages the snapshots for you so you don't have to remember to update the symlinks individually. Unlike rsync[1], Back In time does incremental backups, so you save on storage space if your files don't change often. [0]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Back_In_Time https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Back_In_Time [1] by default, that is - you can use rsync to achieve incremental backups, which is what BIT does