Backup utility in linux

[Eric S. Johansson]

Ante Karamatić wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 00:30 -0600, Jewel wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm not sure it's necessary to back up all of /etc since a power user
>>(someone who edits /etc) probably wouldn't be using a program like
>>this.  Maybe a good solution would be to use the md5sum from dpkg to
>>determine which files in /etc have been changed and back them up.
>>
>>Just throwing out ideas, of course.  Sounds like something a lot of
>>people could use.
>>
>>Jewel
>>
>>P.S.  I found this in the wiki, I'm not sure if it's relevant:
>>
>>http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/SimpleBackupSolution
> 
> 
> I'm not doing system restore, as I find that useless for Linux. I'm
> creating simple backup system to backup userfiles. Backup != System
> Restore. If you ever used any backup system on Linux/BSD/Windows
> (amanda, bacula, etc...) then you know what I'm talking about.

http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/

would probably be a very good base.  It would work both in cron but also 
could use a nice HCI.  If you read the mailing list a majority of the 
problems people have with this package stem from user interface issues.


---eric