Moraine takes hard-linked snapshots of your files to a NAS or server over SSH, or to cloud/FTP/SMB/WebDAV/S3/Drive storage via rclone. Every run becomes its own timestamped snapshot where unchanged files share storage, so you keep full history at almost no extra disk cost. Restore whole snapshots or single files and prune old snapshots with a retention policy.
This snap ships the command-line client only. The GTK desktop app is distributed as a Flatpak, an AppImage and a .deb — see https://moraine.thern.io/distribution.html
rsync, the OpenSSH client and rclone are bundled, so every backend works.
Strict confinement. Your home directory's non-hidden files, external drives and every remote backend work out of the box. To let the bundled ssh use your keys, connect once:
snap connect moraine:ssh-keys
Backing up top-level dotfiles (~/.config, ~/.gnupg, …) is not yet available in
the snap — the personal-files interface it needs is awaiting store approval.
Until then use the .deb, Flatpak or AppImage if you back those up.
Schedule backups from a host systemd timer or cron running
snap run moraine backup <target> (the snap itself does not touch crontab).
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
On Arch Linux, snap can be installed from the Arch User Repository (AUR). The manual build process is the Arch-supported install method for AUR packages, and you’ll need the prerequisites installed before you can install any AUR package. You can then install snap with the following:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/snapd.git
cd snapd
makepkg -si
Once installed, the systemd unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
If AppArmor is enabled in your system, enable the service which loads AppArmor profiles for snaps:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.apparmor.service
To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install Moraine, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install moraine
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