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Why Backup your Data?
Computer drives are very reliable, however they do fail, so it is important to make regular copies of your data - so you can recover your data should the worst happen.

As usual with Linux, there are a plethora of utilities to help you to make a copy of your data: in this article, we are going to look at one of the simplest for Linux newcomers: Deja Dup.

Running Deja Dup
Deja Dup can be run from the desktop System-Administration clicking on it's icon: Backup. Deja Dup has four main tabs.

Configuring which Files to Save
Before you can make a backup, you will need to first tell Deja Dup which files you want to protect.

A new window will open up - click on the "Folders" tab and use the "Add" and "Remove" buttons to add all the directories/files that you wish to backup.

Configuring where it’ll save backup
If we select the storage tab we can to change the backup location.

We should click on Backup location button to tell it if we want to save on local folder or external device. We should click on Backup Location button to tell it if we want to save on local folder or external device

After we click on Choose Folder button and it’ll open a window where we choose the location.

Configuring frecuency backups
In Schedule tabswe can to choose the frecuency that we want that the program perform automatically backups. If we press the button, a popup opens. We choose which suits us. The other option you choose is relative to time, which we want to remain the copies.

Overview tab:
Here we can to activate automatically backup function. Also contains information about the location where it copy the backup, folders or files to backup,  folders to ignore, the most recient backup and the next  automatic backup if it’s activated the option. The new picture show us the buttons that we should click on if we want to save creating a backup or restore the old backups. If we have problems as create or restore backups we may use button help.

Start backup
When configuration selected has completed we click on the "Back Up Now" button to start the process. We will see a new dialogue display, giving details of the backup and it's progress.

The next picture show us the compressed files.

And we have finished.