Have backups done by the system administrator (that would be you) using root privileges. My suggestion would be to simplify the plan. My situation is entirely different, single user and I backup to USB drive, so I'm merely thinking aloud. Even with my learning disabilities, that hasn't been a problem for me (being a coward helps) but not everyone's brains are hardwired that way. The only downside to that is you do have to be diligent at manually updating your backups whenever critical, otherwise unrecoverable data, is added to the computer. It's safer for backup drives to be external, kept powered down, and disconnected from the computer at all times except while updating the backup. This puts the backup drive at risk for losing data the same way you lost it on the computer. To be able to do RealTime backups, you have to have your backup drive connected to the computer at all times. While it is capable of doing RealTime backups, I do not recommend them. I've used FreeFileSync for backing up data only for years first in Win 7 and now in Linux Mint Cinnamon.
#Freefilesync vs realtimesync how to#
That said there are some video tutorials available that give quick oversight of how to use and a manual and FAQs guide too. There is a donation edition available, and it is affordable - a few Euros, but for your usage I doubt that would be necessary for you.įreeFileSync runs its own forum so if you need help if you run into problems in getting things set up you could post there.
#Freefilesync vs realtimesync free#
Program is free and works well - I use it on Windows but Linux and Mac versions are also available. It has a component called RealTimeSync that can, in the background, continually monitor for file changes and will then automatically copy changed files from a source to a target folder (which could be a 'cloud' location). You might find that FreeFileSync can achieve what you want to do. If anyone has a suggestion, I'd be grateful. We're only talking about a few (less than 100) files that need to be backed up, but backups are only useful if they're rigorously done and so I'm excluding the option of using a pen drive. Should I change the permissions of their Documents folders and use a backup tool to copy the contents to different folders in my pCloud drive ? Then I wake up and realize that I don't know if any of this is possible or how to achieve it. I've set up a single pCloud account (note that it is not possible to have multiple pCloud accounts on the same machine) and ideally I would like to include each of my kids Documents folders within my pCloud backups, and even more ideally I'd love to write a script in order to automate the process (maybe a window that pops up when they click logout or shut down asking them if they want to backup, or simply doing so automatically. I'd like to set up a backup solution so that each of their Documents folders is backed up before they logout or shut down.
My kids are using the machine for online schooling and are saving things in their Documents folder.
Pjotr (thanks ) helped me resolve this using "chmod -v 700 $HOME" and this worked perfectly. I was initially surprised to see that any standard user had read and write permissions for all users (and so could view, and delete, my files !) I've set up my machine with one admin and four standard users. Good side of this might be finding a lot of you guys on line for some quick help regarding backups. One month of complete lockdown (in Italy).
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