GUI backup tools? ( was:Re: Destroying "only" your home directory )

[Nancy Rudins]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Daniel Carrera wrote:

> Peter Garrett wrote:
> > There is a tool called "Simple Backup" ( package name sbackup) I'm not
> > sure how much it is capable of, but it puts two entries in the menu
> > ("Simple Backup Config"   and "Simple Backup Restore" )
> > 
> > Perhaps worth a look - I just installed it, and haven't explored it yet ( A
> > taxing download of 36 KB ;-)
> 
> I use it, and I'm very happy with it. You set it up once and then forget 
> about it. I set mine to do an incremental backup of my home every week 
> and full backup every month. The backups go in /var/backups.
> 
> $ cd /var/backups
> $ ls
> ...
> 2006-03-28_06.00.03.911616.Agape.inc/
> 2006-03-29_06.00.03.596904.Agape.inc/
> 2006-03-30_06.00.03.499771.Agape.inc/
> 2006-03-31_06.00.03.359728.Agape.ful/
> 2006-04-02_06.00.04.521486.Agape.inc/
> 2006-04-03_06.00.09.952002.Agape.inc/
> $ cd 2006-04-03_06.00.09.952002.Agape.inc
> $ ls
> base  excludes  files.tgz  flist  fprops  packages  ver
> 
> The backp is in files.tgz, just extract it.
> 
> I have had *one* problem with it though. I have some large files (one 
> movie and a couple of CDs) and the backups started to consume all of my 
> disk space. The solution is to tell it to not include those files or 
> directories. Click on the "Exclude" tab to do that.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
>

I use it and like it too.  I made a symbolic link to my external
200 gig usb disk drive to store the backups.  My internal drive
is only 30 Gig.

Kind regards,
Nancy
 

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