Backing up.

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 10 November 2008, Jonas Norlander wrote:
>2008/11/10 Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>:
>> On Monday 10 November 2008, Knapp wrote:
>>>Hello, I have been dumb for years and gotten away with it. Now I want
>>>to start backing up my system.
>>>What is the best software for this? Is there a system that backs up
>>>only what you say and then every week or day or whatever does an
>>>incremental backup perhaps linked to cron, so I don't have to think
>>>about it? What is the best software?
>>>Thanks from the backup stupid me.
>>>--
>>>Douglas E Knapp
>>>
>>>http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page
>>
>> Are you able to build from a tarball?  If you are, the hands down best SW
>> for the job is amanda.  I don't know how debs handle the various perms it
>> requires, rpms don't do that well so its best built from source to fit
>> your system.  It needs to be built as the user that is going to run it, it
>> will NOT run as root for security reasons, but some pieces do need high
>> perms to run, so it has to be installed by root after building it as the
>> user.
>
>Something wrong or missing from the version in the repro?

That depends on how the install is done.  Some parts of it need to be suid 
root.  Can a deb handle that?  rpms can't.

>/ Jonas



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