Best Backup software for Ubuntu 8.10

[Robert Holtzman]

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Derek Broughton wrote:

> xinchen wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 10:06 -0400, art wrote:
>>> gremlin linuxhelp wrote:
>>>> I am looking for a easy to set up backup software for ubuntu 8.10.
>>>
>>> I've had good luck with Kdar on 8.10.  I backup my ubuntu 8.10 to a
>>> firewire hard drive.  I recently had a laptop drive go bad, and Kdar
>>> worked well to selectively restore what I needed.
>>> Art
>>>
>>>
>> i think rsync is very good
>
> rsync is a low-level utility, it's not a backup application.

I've seen that statement or one similar a few times. Could you point me 
to a doc(s) that explains the drawbacks of using it for backups in a 
little more detail?

Thanks.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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