Backup to CD options?

[Felipe Figueiredo]

Brian

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Brian Lunergan <ff809 at ncf.ca> wrote:
> Hi ho:
>
>  What's available for backup on a single machine to CD (drive is an LG unit
>  that appeared to favour Nero software under XP, at least to do with CD-RW
>  media)??
>
>  Would prefer something with a graphic UI. Not for any nostalgic attachment
>  to windows, but because of disability issues that hamper my keyboarding
>  ability.

"Home User Backup" (real name hubackup) should be what you need,
expect that it has a nasty bug that prevents the application to
restore backups from the application interface (you can restore
manually, if you know the DAR syntax, but it defeats the purpose of
the GUI, right?). The bug is known upstream, and AFAIK it's not ubuntu
related.

Then there is "File Backup Manager" (real name pybackpack). I haven't
tested it, but it can backup by default your home dir to a CD/DVD with
only one click. You should give that a try (also, please test that you
can restore from it, before trusting it your data).

regards
FF