Martin Fisher wrote:
It is now clear that trying to use backuppc is not really appropriate inthis case.I have now looked at a whole range of things, and unfortunately theredoes not seem to be a straightforward tool that I can use in Ubuntu with a GUI or web front end that will do what I want - automated incrementaland full backups to an external drive. I have tried a many things andeither I cannot understand how to use them or they simply don't actually work. I will therefore return to a manual system of occasionally writinga zip archive of my home drive to the external drive. It works but is tiresome and has a number of problems.
I'd use rdiff-backup myself for backing up a single machine to an external drive, but that doesn't have a web interface, just a plain old (but very nice) command line interface. And it is perfectly possible to setup BackupPC to backup localhost to an external drive as well, although BackupPC is really designed for an always on machine (i.e. a server) because it's running maintenance jobs and more geared towards backing up multiple machines (BackupPC uses pooling and compression by default).
Nils Breunese.P.S. It sounds like you'd like Leopard's Time Machine. All you need to do is change your laptop and OS. :o) (Seriously, I use Time Machine on my laptop and it's great. Literally just click OK on a dialogue and all is set.)
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