I formatted my external drive to ext3 as the standard VFAT is a disaster. It truncates large files and ignores maildir entries. Then I built a simple BASH script using cp to copy the directories I need. I tried DAR in the past and found it unacceptable due to creating single, very large file lumps (technical talk there). Ext3 and cp work great.
On April 2, 2007 5:29:44 pm Richard Carter wrote: > Hi Folks > > Can anyone recommend a simple backup utility? > > I'm running Debian etch (testing) amd64 on a system with an 80GB external > HD but no network, so programs like Amanda or backuppc don't seem suitable. > I want to backup about once a week, but not always at the same time to my > 80GB external HD so I need compression (gz or bz2) which seems to make > programs like rsync or rdiff-backup unsuitable. > > Has anyone had any experience with programs like backup21 or sbackup? > > Robin Carter -- Dick - an old mainframer trying to get current. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
