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Backups - Intro to Ubuntu Backup Utility

Backups (also known as Deja Dup) is the default Ubuntu backup utility. It helps you handle scheduling backups and restoring in easy ways on your Ubuntu computers. It is simple by look but rich by feature as it includes ability to save your backups into both network storages as well as online storages such as Nextcloud, Google Drive or OneDrive. To Ubuntu user, Backups fills the purpose of KBackup to Kubuntu users and Windows Backup to Microsoft users. This article is part of our published compilation List of Ubuntu Default Applications and Their Purposes. We hope this helps everyone including you Ubuntu beginners. Now let's start sharing Free Software together once again!

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 14, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. The Word About the Upcoming Talk by Richard Stallman - Scheduled for Friday This Week - Has Spread ("The Cost of Freedom," Lausanne, Switzerland)
    So the word is spreading
  2. Microsoft Front Group Starts the Year by Championing Underage (or Child) Labour
    the fake 'FSF'

    New

  3. Links 13/01/2025: Conflicts, Prisoner Exchange, and Homes on Fire
    Links for the day
  4. Angola: Microsoft Windows Falls Below 10%
    Microsoft has a really bad 2024 in Africa
  5. [Meme] Twitter ("X") Has Been Grooming Radicals Since 2022
    Musk's very own "grooming gang"
  6. [Meme] What Free Speech Ought to Mean
    It does not sound like RMS suggests anything other than quitting social control media
  7. Gemini Links 13/01/2025: RestFest, Yule, and Deedum
    Links for the day
  8. Modern Web Browsers as Web Censorship Software
    We continue to recommend Geminispace
  9. Two Weeks From Now Dr. Richard Stallman Speaks at The Summit of Future 2025 (India)
    he will be giving a "Keynote Address" in India
  10. Microsoft is Tight With Money: It's About the Salaries ('Cost' of the Workers)
    a question of cost, not skill
  11. Google Got People Sort of Addicted to Android So It Can Cash in (Services, App Store, Advertising) Decades Later
    This is not software freedom
  12. The Free Software Foundation Reaches 370k Dollars in Funding, Due Date is January 17th When Richard Stallman is Guest of Honour in Lausanne (Switzerland)
    Even fellow board members seem unaware of it
  13. Record Lows for Windows (Microsoft) in Botswana
    The market share of Vista 11 is seen as going down
  14. Preserving Deleted Articles About Bill Gates Talking Like a Drug Dealer About Computer Users
    Now it's 2025. Different challenge.
  15. Links 13/01/2025: Disinformation, Social Control Media Actively Promoting Nazism, and Catchup With Ukraine
    Links for the day
  16. TPM Boosters Inside Debian (TPM Isn't About Security, It is About Control Over Users and Their Machines)
    We're not rushing to any conclusions
  17. Aaron Swartz Died 12 Years Ago After a Vicious Government Campaign to Stop Him
    The Aaron Swartz story is a reminder of the importance of having verifiable/verified information out there for the general public to see
  18. Links 13/01/2025: GitLab Enshittification and Minimalism and Efficiency with Gemini Protocol
    Links for the day
  19. Links 13/01/2025: Hardware, Health, and Conflicts
    Links for the day
  20. Chatbots Are Not Data-Driven, They're Human-Censored and Rely on Wage Slaves (and Sometimes Unpaid Volunteers)
    This is the Microsoft wage slavery
  21. Microsoft Appears to Have Fallen to Only 15% in Maldives
    This is a problem for Microsoft
  22. Rumours of IBM Canada Layoffs
    We'll keep a vigilant eye on this
  23. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  24. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 12, 2025
    IRC logs for Sunday, January 12, 2025

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

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    1964 /n/2025/01/07/Microsoft_Continues_to_Attack_Users_Choice.shtml
    1613 /n/2025/01/11/Microsoft_in_Trouble_as_Azure_Breaks_and_Only_Days_After_Promis.shtml
    1328 /n/2025/01/10/More_IBM_Layoffs_2025.shtml
    959 /n/2025/01/08/Microsoft_Starts_2025_Like_2024_Mass_Layoffs_Every_Month.shtml
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    767 /n/2025/01/07/In_Europe_Russia_s_Yandex_About_to_Become_Bigger_Than_Microsoft.shtml
    701 /n/2024/12/21/On_BetaNews_Latest_Technology_News_We_are_moderately_confident_.shtml
    700 /n/2025/01/09/Computers_as_a_Heat_Source.shtml
    679 /n/2025/01/09/Free_Software_Cannot_Rely_on_Politicians_They_Don_t_Even_Care_A.shtml
    678 /n/2025/01/07/All_the_Latest_Articles_in_This_Fake_News_Site_Are_SPAM_LLM_Slo.shtml
    649 /n/2025/01/13/Aaron_Swartz_Died_12_Years_Ago_After_a_Vicious_Government_Campa.shtml
    597 /browse/latest.shtml
    597 /n/2025/01/09/Sometimes_the_EFF_Prefers_to_Talk_About_Sex_Not_Tech_or_Unneces.shtml
    586 /n/2025/01/10/Guardian_Digital_Inc_linuxsecurity_com_is_Again_Spamming_or_Goo.shtml
    585 /n/2024/12/30/In_2024_Under_Linux_Foundation_Management_Linux_com_Produced_an.shtml
    564 /n/2025/01/08/Amid_Mass_Layoffs_at_Microsoft_2025_Executives_Flock_to_Google.shtml
    551 /n/2025/01/08/Engagement_in_Microsoft_GitHub_Falls_Expect_More_Layoffs_and_Of.shtml
    523 /n/2025/01/11/After_a_Year_of_Layoffs_in_Microsoft_Nigeria_and_Microsoft_in_A.shtml

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