Keep backups of your keepass file and nothing to worry over. Has everything I need and has some nice password generation features, a dark theme, looks clean. Also it lets me recover a backup from a Linux backup onto Windows machine and vice versa if there is something I need. Used to use DejaDup on Linux and I'm aware that Windows has it's own backup system but I stuck with Duplicati as it still allowed me to use it across whatever OS I want. Also the visual comparison that lets me skim to make sure things should be running as they should is just a nice little quality of life detail.įor general automated backup system of my desktop and laptop is Duplicati An automated backup system that can send backups in lots of different remote ways. There are more fancy features but that's all I really use it for as I have an external HDD that I use to keep my photo library on and after a shoot I dump all the images onto it, then sync the drive to my server which does all the backing up in background for me. FreeFileSync does all the things you'd expect, Local files & SSH remote files. This has happened a few times and having to reread the documentation for a terminal command gets old after the 2nd time. "Is recursive -r or -R.wait why are there both -a and -A in here too?" Now if you need something more manual for syncing or manual I can recommend FreeFileSync it's pretty much Rsync in GUI form which I like, you can also save sync jobs and name them so when you open up a job it's options easily readable rather than trying to remember what the long list of option commands. Setup was really easy and wish I found this bit of software sooner! And while you don't need a server, I run an instance of syncthing on my server anyway to be a kind of 2nd hand back up. I could declare different folders to sync and the big bonus, it's something I could self host, you don't even need a central server to self host either, it's peer to peer so no middle man bits, just need two computer you want to sync a folder, or folders to. I did find Syncthing and it fit everything I needed and wanted perfectly. Nothing inherently wrong with how Dropbox worked it just didn't give me enough granular control over what I wanted, for general single folder sync, would of been perfect. I tried to use Dropbox for a while as Google's Drive was not something I was interested in as I've been slowly removing google bits from my digital day to day. The desktop and laptop have general files to keep in sync with all of them but I do want things like Joplin to be able to sync to all three. Next part I should talk about is syncing files among machines, I have a desktop, laptop and a phone. It's a very useful bit of software if you're going to write a large novel, it helps you keep track of a lot of information and stay organized. Novelwriter Side info for novelwriter, if you're on Windows the easiest way to install it is to install python3 with PATH enabled in setup then in powershell execute pip install novelWriter Linux land in terminal run sudo apt install python-3 and then pip3 install novelWriter Simplenote note keeping app that you need an account to sync, uses markdown but I never used that bit. Other notable text writing programs would be:įocuswriter Good for distraction free writing. There really isn't to much more to say about it other than it's handy for keeping a ton of information and/or writing, easy to sync with just about anything. It also works on my phone so I'm able to check and edit things else where. Before this I used Simplenote and while it also has markdown functionality, it's hosted by someone else and I was looking to move as much as possible to self hosting. There is also a webclips addon that while I haven't used very much, the few times it's been very handy for quickly capturing information from web pages. Quickly making lists, writing these reports or writing down technical information that requires sections to be marked as code. Very top of my useful bit of software is Joplin It's a markdown editor that I use for pretty much anything involving text in some form or another. For everyone else that enjoys some ramble, read on! This report will have a tidy list of all of the software posted at the bottom if you want to quickly peruse through.
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