sbackup / unison / unison-gtk

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:16:22 +0100
"Lee Tambiah" <l_tambiah at linuxmail.org> wrote:

> > From: Ouattara Aziz <wattazoum at gmail.com>
> > To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Subject: Alternative to Drakbackup
> > Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:45:02 +0200
> > 
> > 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I was wondering if there was an alternative to drakbakup from 
> > mandriva on Ubuntu .

[snip]

> > Maybe I am mistaking. For instance I was thinking there was no 
> > graphical tool on Ubuntu like XFBdrake ( remote desktop manager ) 
> > and I have been happily surprised to see it exists on ubuntu. So 
> > now, I am looking for ubuntu alternatives.
> > 
> > If there isn't, do you think it would be difficult to port it from 
> > mandriva to Ubuntu ?
> > 
> 
> SBackup is something simular, 
> 
> http://sbackup.sourceforge.net/HomePage

sbackup is available in the Ubuntu Universe repository:

$ apt-cache show sbackup | grep Filename
Filename: pool/universe/s/sbackup/sbackup_0.9-1_all.deb

After installing it, you should find two menu entries for it under System -
Administration labelled "Simple Backup Config " and "Simple Backup Restore"

You might also want to look at  "unison" (with "unison-gtk", which is a
graphical interface for the unison tool).

Peter