Versioning and restoration
When calamity strikes is your stuff safe?
Abackup tool should also make it easy to restore whenever the need arises. While all the tools covered in this Roundup excel at restoration, LuckyBackup has a comparatively cumbersome process.
By default it backups up the contents of the backup folder to the destination. If you accidentally delete a file in the original location and run the backup again, the deleted file will also be zapped from the backup. To overcome this you can ask it to keep multiple versions of the backups and then you can revert to any one of them.
ArecaBackup can restore complete backups from an archive and even individual files. The restore process offers many options. You can ask it to always skip existing files or those files for which the backed up version is older. You can just as easily overwrite, or let Areca prompt you for a decision, and choose whether to restore deleted files. Areca also enables you to check all the files after the restore.
BackInTime creates snapshots directories, which means it copies a directory’s entire contents into the backup as long as the contents have changed. Using the tool you can restore individual files and complete directories to either their original location or to a custom one.
DéjàDup does incremental backups and by default keeps older backups forever. When restoring, the wizard displays a timestamped list of backups and you can choose to restore files from any one. Like the others, Déjà Dup too can restore files to the original location or to another folder. Similarly, Gadmin-Rsync creates incremental backups and you can restore content to the original or different directory.