What backup software?

[Jorge Luis]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Brian McKee wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Oliver Devoogdt <oliver at oliware.be> wrote:
> > Christian schreef:
> >> Hi all,
> >> I am looking for a disk backup software that can backup any partition to
> >> an image and restore it at a later time.
> >> What backup software would you recommend?
> >>   Many thanks,
> >> Christian
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > A very good system recovery tool is mondo rescue:
> > It creates iso's that you can boot from and restore your system, a great
> > tool !
> > http://www.mondorescue.org/
> > Only disadvantage, no ubuntu/debian packages yet.
> 
> mondo is in the universe repositories.
> If you do decide to use it, consider installing it from upstream
> rather than using the packages in the repository which I've had issues
> with.   Also be sure to pin the package if you install it that way so
> the ubuntu packages (which are numbered differently) don't overwrite
> it on your next update.
> 
> Brian

Unless you need the bootable iso function of mondo, you might also
consider dirvish, which is under active development and uses rsync with
hard links to reduce the size of successive backups.  It will back up
across a network using ssh.  I've been using dirvish for three years to
good effect.

Good luck,

	JL

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