What are the top programs for creating backups in linux?

Question

Backup

There is a server with Apache php and all the consequences + my own cloud storage (nextcloud), I think how to protect myself from data loss, I need to backup the whole thing incrementally, the problem is that I am not familiar with Linux, I use AOMEI Backupper on Windows, I need something simple, so that without turning off the server it copies all the data, although you can turn it off, let's make a backup at 3-4 o'clock in the morning and start it again, tell me how to do it correctly and painlessly?

Answer 1

rsnapshot + script to backup your databases, eg.

Answer 2

Rsync, self-written script, and a million more options.

Answer 3

The best option is a file system with support for snapshots (btrfs, zfs) in conjunction with rsync, for example. Also, you can get by with the send / receive mechanism of these file systems.
Take a snapshot on the server and send it to the backup server. For the rsync option, after that, you can make a snapshot on the backup server for versioning backups. For the case of sending, this will not be necessary.
However, it is recommended to backup the database using regular and recommended means of a specific DBMS

Answer 4

Alternatively, rdiffbackup and its web interface rdiffweb .