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On Monday 14 October 2002 13:08, you wrote:
> I think that he didn't look for backup tools, but asked what's wrong
> with a dumb copy, and if a dumb copy can be used instead of tools like
> Ghost and mindi/mondo.
>
> Since this question bothers me too, can anybody summarize the
> advantages of a dedicated backup software?
A dumb copy can be used (if you pass the right flags to copy or to tar).
Advantages/disadvantages:
1. a backup software usually registers itself as a cron process. You don't
have to actually write the script or register it in cron.
2. a backup software is usually incremental. Meaning you can always have a
snapshot of last night and not waste the entire disk space every night. The
backup software only backs us all change since "level 0" (full last backup).
3. a backup software sends you nice emails that predict when you will run out
of space on your backup media so you can change it before hand. A script does
not.
4. a backup software requires some learning (not a lot though and some have
graphical front ends which are really easy).
5. a backup software keeps dates on files automatically. This means that you
can save years of backups and not worry about organizing the files yourself
according to dates (the backup software does it for you).
This is all I could think of.
Cheers,
Mark
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