On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 16:28, you wrote: > Hi All, > > Might I suggest unison if you have a spare hdd, with enough capacity. > It's not a real backup untility, more a disk synch tool but I have > always found it to be a goody; and you can keep it running in the > background once the first synch has completed, sort of a "poor man's" > active serve directory tool. And it's got a good, simle gui. > > Paul Hornshaw > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Munro Glass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 02:43 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: backups > > On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 13:35, Dave wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I was looking for suggstions for a backup utility > > > > I'm waning to .tar file onto a second "backup harddrive", via a daily > > cron > > > job, and archive to CD every couple of weeks > > > > previously on Mandrake I used Drakebackup whhich was easy to use (but > > a bit > > > tempermental) > > > > I have had a look at a few others, Kbackup which is installed on this > > distro- but seems a bit difficult to set up > > > > Has anyone got favourites?? > > Check out rsnapshot at http://www.rsnapshot.org - a really useful tool > based > on rsync that handles local and remote backups. > > Tom Munro Glass
Thanks for you help I've had a bit of a crack at rsync/rsnapshot, set up a backup script and crontab job so I'll keep my fingers crossed and see how it works out cheers................dave Mail to: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ____________________________________________ Sent with Kmail - KDE Desktop 3.1.5 Mepis Linux - Kernel 2.4.22 (i686) ____________________________________________
