Simple Backup problems

[Steven Susbauer]

On Fri, 15 May 2009 12:06:54 -0500, David Christensen  
<dpchrist at holgerdanske.com> wrote:

> Edgars Ðmits wrote:
>> I'm running Jaunty and have a windows share of 6.7GB auto mounting to
>> a directory in my home partition. I need to back this directory up on
>> a weekly basis to another partition on my Ubuntu box. I need a simple
>> solution,
> I use rsync wrapped in a Perl script to backup many folders on several
> machines to an external hard drive.
>
> HTH,
>
> David
>
>

Check out Backintime (http://backintime.le-web.org/). It is a frontend for  
rsync and some other stuff. Graphical interface, and smart with backups.  
If you want to make incremental backups it's great, it will only create  
new files for things that have changed or been added, otherwise it uses  
hard links to keep the structure while also saving space.