Interesting that you mention Time Machine. It would be perfect of course. In my search for something that I could use I cam across flyback (http://code.google.com/p/flyback/), modeled on TimeMachine's idea. I installed it and tried to run it but it immediately had problems and have therefore removed it. sbackup (in the Ubuntu distros) has most of what I want, but it only allows you to back up to your main computer, which is not very helpful. I suppose I will have to try a command line program, such as rdiff-backup or rsnapshot but am daunted by the time it takes to understand what to do!
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 22:11 +0100, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > Martin Fisher wrote: > > > It is now clear that trying to use backuppc is not really > > appropriate in > > this case. > > > > I have now looked at a whole range of things, and unfortunately there > > does 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 > > incremental > > and full backups to an external drive. I have tried a many things and > > either I cannot understand how to use them or they simply don't > > actually > > work. I will therefore return to a manual system of occasionally > > writing > > a 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.) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper > from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going > mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. > http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 > _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] List: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: > http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- Dr Martin Fisher Editor, Oryx - The International Journal of Conservation Fauna & Flora International, 4th Floor, Jupiter House Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2JD, UK e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +44 (0)20 81238513 skype martin_pescador Oryx online http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=ORX Instructions for Contributors http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayMoreInfo?jid=ORX&type=ifc Online submissions http://www.epress.ac.uk/oryx/webforms/author.php Personal subscriptions http://www.fauna-flora.org/membership.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
