What are good gui alternatives to FREEFILESYNC?

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FREEFILESYNC will cause very awful problems when im trying to sync with it using a veracrypt encrypted device…

so i’m looking for a better program that will locally sync my files from the hard drive to external hard drive.
but not terminal based.

i could not find one by making a quick search on the internet.
thank you
ps
i need to backup my files urgently… maybe something is wrong with the external hard drive… it is not clear to me.

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that should not be happening - and I can’t imagine a way or cause where FREEFILESYNC would be the culprit.

You should not look for another program - you should look into why your encrypted storage seems to fail you.

This could be an early sign of imminent catastrophical failure.
Have a backup ready!

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should probably check the SMART status of your storage device

as for a GUI alternative, i don’t use a GUI backup program so i can’t help there, but you might want to look at rsync for which there are probably many GUI front-ends

$ man rsync

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backintime would probably do the job you need. It is well maintained, and as it does not compress the backed-up files, they can be restored to the original drive just by dragging & dropping.

Back In Time is a backup solution for GNU/Linux desktops. It is based on rsync and uses hard links to reduce space used for unchanged files. It comes with a graphical user interface (GUI) and a command line interface (CLI).

Backups are stored in plain text. They can be browsed with a normal file-browser or in terminal which makes it possible to restore files even without Back In Time. Files ownership, group and permissions are stored in a separate compressed plain text file (fileinfo.bz2). If the backup drive does not support permissions Back In Time will restore permissions from fileinfo.bz2. So if you restore files without Back In Time, permissions could get lost.

To install it:

sudo pacman -Syu backintime

or

pamac install backintime
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thank you all!!

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i’ve installed it on my gnome but don’t see it in the applications menu…
not sure why

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Oops - you need to also install backintime-qt for the GUI. Hopefully that will run okay on Gnome.

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probably the external hard drive really dying.
during sync it stops and not continue…

i ordered a new drive.

the bad one that i’ve is a seagate…

what is the best way to destroy it physically so data can’t be recovered by someone?

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it’s already gone, going by what you describe.

You can overwrite whatever is on there.

eg:
cp /dev/random /dev/your_device

or just write any old unimportant data to it - like your music or movie collection

and just throw it away
or
even sell it

hit it with a hammer - or a similar heavy device known to cause physical damage
as often as you feel appropriate
although: one good hit is good enough :wink:

Meine Güte …

If you don’t sell it or give it away
or
throw it away

why would you think that anyone would be interested in what is on there? …

if you throw it away, hit by a hammer multiple times,
and THEY recover it …

THEY will already have been onto you
but:

… THEY won’t stand a chance
based upon the non recoverable content
despite of them being proclaiming the opposite

… what is wrong with you ordinary people falling for this scare … ?

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