Best Backup software for Ubuntu 8.10

Robert Holtzman holtzm at cox.net
Wed Apr 8 17:37:02 UTC 2009


On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Guy Thouret wrote:

>
> I recently evaluated a few backup solutions and dismissed solutions that
> required me to manually edit cron simply for the fact that if I ever
> upgrade or change my system I'll just forget to add the cron job.
>
> I wanted something that was no nonsese so it needed to be packaged,
> simple to use and simple to recreate.
>
> I found a good solution in Sbackup, you can read about my evaluations
> at:
> http://www.workswithu.com/2009/04/02/evaluating-ubuntu-backup-solutions-the-foss-way/

I read your evaluation of rsync and am mystified at your claims that it 
doesn't give the option of excluding directories or files and that it 
will only backup directories and not files. Neither is true.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
"The person who says it cannot be done should not
  interrupt the person doing it."
      -blatantly plagiarized -




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