Pika Backup

Pika Backup wraps the excellent Borg engine in a GNOME app your non-technical self will actually use: pick folders, pick a destination (external drive or SSH/BorgBase remote), enable scheduling, done. Backups are encrypted, compressed, and deduplicated, so keeping months of snapshots costs surprisingly little space, and browsing/restoring old versions happens through a simple file view.

It intentionally hides Borg’s power: no multiple-destination sync for one archive, limited fine-grained retention tuning compared to raw Borg or Vorta, and no Windows-share destinations without workarounds. It backs up user data, not a bootable system image (pair with Timeshift for system snapshots). For KDE aesthetics or more knobs, Vorta is the same engine with more dials.