On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 08:45 +0100, Terry Coles wrote: > On Friday 06 Aug 2010, Peter Merchant wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 20:43 +0100, Peter Merchant wrote: > > > What does anyone recommend. I want to backup selected files/directories > > > from my data disk. Been meaning to do this for months. > > > > > > K3B fails with a msioft(?) module error that is apparently well known > > > when doing data files, > > > One of the forums recommended brasero, which takes forever (>4 hours) > > > calculating checksums, so I gave up on it. > > > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > > That's copying data files out to DVD by the way. > > Hmmm. I didn't answer this originally, because the last line of Peter's > message led me to believe that he was looking for a backup utility that was > designed to write the data to a CD. Most of the replies so far seem to be > about the front end data gathering and not the CDRW capability. > > For what it's worth, I use Simple Backup Suite, which is in the *buntu > repositories as sbackup. It does full backups and incrementals and has > pretty > good configuration capabilities. The only problem is that there is a bug in > later versions of *buntu, which mean that although you can use the GUI to > configure the backup, but it has to be started with 'sudo sbackupd' in a > shell. It will then write the backup to the defined destination, which I > guess would have to be on a hard disk initially, but this could easily be > copied off to a CD later. (Once you've found a CD writer package that works > for you.) Thanks, Terry, but it is this last stage that gives the grief. k3b collects all the files and folders that I want, but has a -known- problem when it starts to write to a disk. I have used it before for cutting ISOs out to disk as distros, and it is fine with that.
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