@as400 rdiff-backup is a classic, as is just tarballs

@as400 i described my personal backup workflow including tooling in https://xosc.org/timemachine.html you have an initial setup effort and then you just connect your external stick or disk.

@as400 cpdup is another option, comparable to rsnapshot (faster in my experiments), if your needs are simple (no encryption). upstream is within #dragonflybsd

@as400 do you need the backups to be readable at a file level without any special tool? Because if you don't I'd just use restic. Even if you don't *need* compression and deduplication everything else it brings is too useful to give up, starting with its speed and ending with the possibility of quickly verifying the backup is actually working (everything is checksummed and can be inspected without a complete restore)

@as400 borg ?

@[email protected] i'll still go for a tool with replication inside : dejadup (frontend to restic).
put in the hand of a non techies with a big boutton backup and a less big boutons browse backups.
once configured very useful, restauration easy