<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.8.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Wed, 2006-05-04 at 01:53 -0500, Kenneth P. Turvey wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> If I was going to have to spend that much time making backups I would consider different hardware or becoming competent at using tar and cdrecord so you could automate them, use compression, and limit the backups to only those things that need to be backed up. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Wouldn't it be more awesome if "Linux for Human Beings", given how important everybody here is saying backing up is!, would have a backup system in place that didn't require the user to learn Mystic Incantations<tm>? You know: a backup program that regular human beings can use with ease instead of cluttering their minds with unintuitive command line switches like "-j" to compress one way, but "-z" to compress another way, etc? <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> The fact is that for $100 in hardware you can reduce your backup time down to around 2 minutes. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> The other fact is that hardware isn't really the issue. It's the software that sucks. <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> -- Michael T. Richter Email: ttmrichter@gmail.com, mtr1966@hotpop.com MSN: ttmrichter@hotmail.com, mtr1966@hotmail.com; YIM: michael_richter_1966; AIM: YanJiahua1966; ICQ: 241960658; Jabber: mtr1966@jabber.cn "Thanks to the Court's decision, only clean Indians or colored people other than Kaffirs, can now travel in the trams." --Mahatma Gandhi </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>