Backing up.

[Francisco Borges]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>wrote:

> Jonas Norlander wrote:
>
> > 2008/11/11 Robert Parker <rlp1938 at gmail.com>:
> >> Using a GUI for a repetitive task with parameters that don't change
> >> is just doing it the hard way. For such tasks the CLI is just so much
> >> easier. Morover it's more reliable. Why would you want a GUI?
> >
> > You sure dont need a GUI for the backups but i think that a GUI for
> > the setup, configuration and most of all if you want to restore
> > something. Browsing the backups sorted by different criteria, see
> > diff's of files side by side, do searching... Thats some of the reason
> > when i would love to have a GUI when working with backups.
>
> The best backup system for KDE, ever, was KDar.  I still use it, even
> though it's been out of Kubuntu since Feisty.  KDar is just the GUI for dar,
> but nobody in their right mind would try to set up a backup system using dar
> directly.
>

:-)

Actually I did that for a long time (using dar directly).

I stoped using it when I found faubackup, which is much, much simpler, and
has the advantage that all your files area available directly instead of a
".dar.[0-9]" file.

Faubackup actually presents you with a complete view of all your files, at
any backup point and allows the space-saving incremental backup feature at
the same time due to hard linking. (note that I guess Dar does a diff
between different versions of a file, while faubackup just adds a new copy
for the new version of the file)

Cheers,
-- 
Francisco
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