Backups

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 16 October 2014 11:22:36 Peter Goggin did opine
And Gene did reply:
> I need to backup my laptops to an external disk.  When I was using MS
> windows I used a program Karen' Replicator.
> 
> Is there similar sort of program in ubuntu?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Peter Goggin

Have a look at amanda. Complex to setup the first time, but extremely 
capable as it can treat the external drive as a series of virtual tapes.
I have been using it here, to a dedicated internal drive for several 
years. That drive has also failed a couple times, both well beyond the 
warranty, but the disk monitoring stuff gives you time enough to run to 
town and get another so I have had no unrecoverable losses in almost 15 
years now.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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