Backing up.

[O. Sinclair]

Knapp wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
>> On Tuesday 11 November 2008, Derek Broughton wrote:
>>>> Ever take a look at Daromizer?   It run dar but it chops output into
>>>> nice pieces, to fit on DVD's or CD's or whatever.
>>> KDar does that too.  I'll have to look at Daromizer.
>> One thing Daromizer does is to run dar as a background task while it writes
>> the previous piece to media.  So once it gets rolling (past the first piece)
>> it gets to be pretty efficient.
> 
> So, is it true that there is no really good newbie friendly GUI based
> backup program in the whole of Kubuntu? This seems to me like a huge
> huge hole! Daromizer is not even in apt-get nor is Kdar.
> 
> Just to make sure I have the facts right.
> dar is the best CLI backup program and it can do incremental backups.
> 
> Amanda is in Kubuntu but comes in 3 parts and is hard to learn.
> 
> rdiff-backup is a hard to use CLI but is good and is in Kubuntu?
> 
> DVDisaster is really good for archiving CD or DVDs but is hard to use
> and must be used CLI to get the full usage that would be needed. It is
> not for doing backups but can work.
> 
> One person uses tar (7zip is better) but that has no incremental
> backup features.
> 
> kgpg to do a symmetrical encryption of the tar file save files in a
> private way with Kgpg.
> 
> Keeper is lame.
> 
> One other point by me. The very best reason to have a GUI is so that
> you can run a program that sets something complex up without having to
> read the manual. Setups are often only done one or less times a year;
> people forget CLI stuff faster than that. If you live the task then
> CLI can be better. The other end of the task is hopefully done less
> than one time decade, restoring what you lost. I would bet none of the
> CLI guys can do it without looking back to the manual. Newbies don't
> even know where the CLI manuals are!
> 
Just as an alternative: I use KBackup (find it at kde-apps) works very 
well but has 2 flaws: files over 4Gb is a problem (backup files that is) 
and there is no restore function. Backups can be restored of course but 
it is a manual cli thing to do so.

Sinclair