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[–] Hupf@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

http://taobackup.com/

[–] StellarSt0rm@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The next day, the novice's disk crashed. Three days later, the novice was still reinstalling software.

I laugh in NixOS

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] StellarSt0rm@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Okay, fair, upgrading and clean installs take a while. Specially on slow internet connections. But it doesnt really compile much, we have cache.nixos.org with prebuilt binaries for most packages.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Adding another link, perhaps not equivalent:

https://freefilesync.org/

I use it to backup media. If the backup roots are your drives, restoring is as easy as copy-paste, merge folders and wait.

Edit: actually, you may be able to just reverse the direction of the sync. I'm not sure.