On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) < g...@freephile.com> wrote:
> Everyone knows you should have backups. Still, it can be a bit of a > challenge to setup. Well now, it's EASY with "Back In Time". > > > website: http://backintime.le-web.org/ > > Back In Time is a simple point-and-click backup tool for Linux > inspired from “flyback project” and “TimeVault”. Currently there are > two GUI available: Gnome and KDE 4 (>= 4.1). > > There are three reviews referenced on the website which illustrate the > simple setup with screenshots. Linux Journal's Shawn Powers did a > video http://www.linuxjournal.com/video/who-needs-time-machine-back-time > This is a very cool, with a very sweet interface, but it is not very much of a backup program. It is a snapshot program, which is half of what a backup program should be, and it is the half that is often overlooked by other programs that call themselves backups. The snapshotting protects you from user error on file manipulation, but it does not protect you from file corruption due to bad hardware, viruses (well, maybe a little if you are lucky), or other bad software (bugs, etc). Time Machine actually stores a copy of all the current data as well as the snapshots on a complete separate storage system, which is how a backup should be done. Ideally, a backup tool should run on a separate device and pull data from the devices that are to be backed up in a way that only it has access too. If you want to access your old data, this should required special credentials not stored on the backed-up devices in anyway. This way, bad software has no way to access the backups to mess with them. My understanding is that Time Machine does even do this. Rather it is a client that runs on the device being backed up and pushed the data to the remote storage. Check out backuppc (also in Ubuntu repos). Not simple last time I looked at it, but it is complete. Also, rsnapshot running on a seperate device with dedicated storage covers all the bases and is pretty easy to use if you are OK with the command line and a little cron configging.
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