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

[Derek Broughton]

Chanchao wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 10:54 +0300, Ari Torhamo wrote:
> 
>> What is it with you and optical disks? What did they ever do to
>> you?! ;-)
> 
> Hahahahahaha.. Well they're slow, expensive, fiddly, ......  :)
> 
> They're excellent for burning a home video and sending it to your folks
> so they can view  it on their DVD player.. But for backup?

You haven't proposed a better solution.  A USB hard drive is no solution at
all unless you're using incremental backups, because it's limited storage. 
Even incrementals will fill it eventually.  For backup, CD/DVD is the only
solution that makes sense to the average user.  
-- 
derek