Two things missing from Ubuntu - Backup and Firewall - can we havethem in Horay

zer0halo zerohalo at gmail.com
Fri May 20 19:28:24 UTC 2005


On 5/18/05, grakhul <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> I am looking for an easy to use backup utility for Ubuntu.
> 

Have you tried dar? 

http://dar.linux.free.fr/

In Hoary Universe. 

As someone else mentioned, you can set it with a cronjob. Works well
for me and has many options.

However, I would agree with other comments that we need a GUI
interface for a backup program like DAR. There is KDAR, which I
haven't tried since it requires a lot of KDE libs to compile from
source.

DAR is great for the power user, but for a non-tech person who is
starting off on Linux (and Hoary is a great distro for that), they
need something simple with a GUI that they can use. A Gnome front-end
GUI for DAR would be excellent, IMO. Or maybe there's another solution
out there which I haven't found yet.

I think Mondo is a bit too complex for your average non-techie user.

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