Best Backup software for Ubuntu 8.10

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Fri Apr 3 16:13:13 UTC 2009


On 04/03/2009 07:52 AM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Robert Parker wrote:
> 
>>> But, as Derek stated it's a utility, rsync is not some GUI that lets you
>>> click, click and done. And. as Chris pointed out, the manual page needs
>>> to be consulted.
>> 
>> Since when was a backup utility required to be a GUI? Though many are.
> 
> It's not - and I didn't quite say that - but I'd consider unison to be
> closer to being a backup application (though that's not its real purpose),
> and rsync is the tool it uses to do its job.  

Ah. Thanks for that, I'll give that a look.

I've been using grsync; it's a very nice gui front-end to rsync (albeit
slightly limited).

http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/grsync







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