Best Backup software for Ubuntu 8.10

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Derek Broughton wrote:
> Walton Hoops wrote:
> 
>> I have to disagree, if you can use cron, rsync is quite simple to set up
>> as a backup tool.
> 
> Sure, and there probably isn't a sysadmin anywhere who doesn't use it, but
> that still doesn't make it fit into Art's requirement of "easy to set up
> backup software".  
> 
> Face it, the average user _can't_ use cron, and even if he could he'd still
> need to figure out what command to use.

Here is what I have setup:
1. A bash scripts which uses an excludes file and an includes file to
see what is specified to be backed up or not, it mounts the partition on
which to do backup, determines how many are already done, pushed them by
one and then creates a new backup using rsync (using --delete option).
This produces rolling backups. NB: Even though I am using --delete
option, I can still go back in time to recover a file!
2. A cron job that calls this script on predetermined time.
3. The configuration file of this script determines how many backups I
want to keep. If I am doing the backups daily and I want to keep 30,
then I can go back 30 days. This can be changed.
4. The backups are incremental.

So, I am using a bash script to call rsync to make incremental rolling
backups while using the --delete options.

These steps are just over simplifications of what I actually do. But
then I am familiar with scripts, programming, Linux stuff, etc. and it
was only a few hours job to write up the little program and test it out
before starting to use it. And I fully agree with you that using rsync
command itself to build backups it not any average user's cup of tea.

An average user is far better off using one of several GUI fronts, even
non-gui backup tools which require only one-time configuration to start
making backups. I know that dirvish, though nogui, is quite a nice one.

Regards.


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