<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"> <html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css"> p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } </style></head><body style=" font-family:'Ubuntu'; font-size:8pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;"> Dear Everybody So far, I have been making backups from time to time via Dolphin or Midnight Commander: OK for one complete backup, but not effective for daily routine focussed at only newly added or changed files. Of course, I have been looking at this issue at the internet. Several packages and methods are being mentioned there. However, I am wondering which method(s) and package(s) work best in practice in my situation: Eee PC 1001 HA along with Kubuntu 11.04 or 11.10, in combination with two external mass storage devices - one HD to store at home, a 2nd one to always carry with me. In fact, I am looking for a package which is able to help me as follows: <ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; -qt-list-indent: 1;"><li style=" font-size:12pt;" style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">making a first complete backup from all the text files, images, photo's, video's, etc. at each of the 2 external devices;</li> <li style=" font-size:12pt;" style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:12px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">afterwords, making routine backups at each of the two devices while focussing only at files added or modified ever since the previous backup session.</li></ul> What else to take into account: <ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; -qt-list-indent: 1;"><li style=" font-size:12pt;" style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">I do not want to backup software which is available anyway in the repositories or elsewhere;</li> <li style=" font-size:12pt;" style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:12px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">My netbook does not run 24/24hours - so I prefer to regulate the time schedule manually instead of relying on some automatic schedule.</li></ul> Be so kind to provide me with you practical experience and thoughts. Thanks, respectfully yours, Bas Roufs. -- ==== Bas G. Roufs MA Van 't Hoffstraat 1 NL-3514 VT Utrecht +31 30 785 20 40 +31 6 446 835 10 BasRoufs@gmail.com OS: Linux Kubuntu 11.04, kubuntu.org Websites in construction: * rainbowgathering.eu * basroufs.eu * viaconsensus.nl </body></html>