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teejee2008 / aptik

Command-line tool for migrating system settings and data for distributions based on Debian, Arch and Fedora. Can backup and restore software repositories, packages, icons, themes, fonts, users, groups, home data, dconf settings, fstab/crypttab entries, and cron tasks.
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Home Folder archive file far too large #32

Closed gozo97 closed 5 years ago

gozo97 commented 5 years ago

Hello. I am attempting to backup my installation of Mint 18.3 Cinnamon using Aptik-GTK with the one-click option. All the backup seems to be successful apart from my home/ folder. The home partition is about 74 GB but Aptik tries to archive it to a much larger file and finally halts due to lack of disk space. The same thing happens if I try an individual backup of the home folder rather than the one-click choice, it simply runs out of space. I have attached a copy of the terminal output which shows the archived file to be 245 GB! Any suggestions very welcome, thank you.

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teejee2008 commented 5 years ago

The free version of Aptik is no longer maintained

A paid version is available with more features. https://teejeetech.in/2019/07/14/aptik-v19-07/