Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

[Ari Torhamo]

On pe, 2005-02-18 at 13:10 +0800, rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
>On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 03:54:38 +0200, Ari Torhamo
><ari.torhamo at saunalahti.fi> wrote:
>> On pe, 2005-02-18 at 08:34 +0800, rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
>> >On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:00:24 +1100, David <david at kenpro.com.au> wrote:
>> ><snip>
>> >> I use rsync, and i'm surprised more people haven't mentioned this tool.
>> >> Really easy, can be done by cron. Is there some reason NOT to use it?
>> >
>> >Nup, rsync is your friend!  :)
>> >
>> 
>> I just did a search in Synaptic with the word "backup" and rsync didn't
>> come up in the results. I found out the reason to be that the word
>> backup doesn't occur even once in the description of the package. It's a
>> pitty that such a great tool for backing up data (as people say it is)
>> can go unnoticed for many, because such an obvious search term is
>> missing in the description.
>
>
>All true. It probably wasn't written to do backup just turned out
>being very useful for that. And programmers aren't always the best at
>selling their wares. Their time is better spent writing software.  ;-)
>
>You could put it in and send it off to the maintainer?   :-)


Hi Russ,

I'd like to do that. The only problem is that I have never used the
program - I propably even couldn't use it - and because of this I
wouldn't feel very confident about saying anything about it. 

I actually am in a need of a backup program, which would work with
CD-RWs too and could do incremental (is this the right word?) backups...
Am I talking myself here into using rsync? Maybe I'll take a look at it,
but propably it would require much guru level tweaking, which I'm not
able to do and I would just get angry and frustrated :-) Yes, I'm
smiling, but I'm getting angry already just thinking about it... I would
just want to clikck some stylish and friedly Gnome buttons and see
things go right by themselves.

[a funny phrase]

Ari