You mentioned that you wanted an X interface, and scheduling and stuff. I set up something for a client where I created a Cron job to TAR up whatever they needed (and then some).
I know tar is ugly to use, but generally, once the job is set up, nobody really changes it. Cron lets you be pretty particular with your scheduling, so it should meet your needs. It's also available on every distro, so it's both well known, and well supported. The X interface is really for doing restores (generally), and for that, I'd suggest just using Konquerer. It will read both .tar and tar.gz files with no problem, browsing them as if they are normal directories. Files needing to be restored can be copied and pasted right out of the archive the same as moving them around anywhere else in the file system. As far as other stuff, I remember looking at BRU, which sounds like what you're after, except that it isn't OSS nor is it Free. From memory, http://www.tolisgroup.com/ Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "BEH - Bryce Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 2:04 PM Subject: (clug-talk) Backup program(s) that can be recommended > I'm trying to find out what everyone has learned about various backup > programs. I'm looking for X and text menu interfaces, full scheduling > capability and popularity which hopefully means it will exist and be > supported for some time to come. And for a final kicker, I'm also looking > for free or at least inexpensive. Currently I'm looking at Arkeia by Knox > Software - are there any users out there with hands-on experience? > > If anyone has any experiences of the 'it really screwed me up when it > didn't do as it was supposed to' or 'the restore failed when I needed it' > variety, I would like to know of those as well. > >
