Slant community chat on DiscoursePro Straightforward interface
The program's interface has 4 tabs - overview, storage, folders and schedule. You select where to back up in "storage", what folders to back up and ignore in "folders" and how often to back up in "schedule." Overview displays all these settings and offers a choice...
Pro Can back up to any server that Nautilus can connect to
You can connect to both physically connected devices as well as devices that are available over FTP, SSH, etc.
Pro Available on Ubuntu by default
Comes pre-installed on Ubuntu.
Con No way to set a specific backup time for automatic backups
You can only set the backups to be daily, weekly or monthly without the ability to tell what time the backups should happen.
Con No way to set limitations on how much disk space the application should use
The program will use up all available disk space for backups. There's not way to set limitations.
Pro Highly configurable
Almost all functionality of the program can be customized. It's possible to set when snapshot get removed based on age, available disk space, quantity in a set time period, you can include and exclude files, folders and filetypes, you can defer backups when on battery power, you can ignore err...
Con Interface could be more intuitive
The program uses non-labeled, non-intuitive icons and the purpose and functionality of the file browser is not clear at first glance.
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