Are you in a position to set this up for $OTHER_PERSON?
Last week I installed Simple Linux Backup [1] as reviewed in Linux Format
magazine [2]. There are only three windows to go through:
1. Select files/directories you want to include and/or exclude.
2. Select where you want the backup to go. It will (try) and mount the
backup device automatically.
3. Schedule when backup will happen.
Monday's are a full complete backup, every other day is an incremental
backup of changed files.
Program is written in Java and requires version 1.5 or greater.
For me (Mepis), the program is working as advertised.
Cheers,
Chris
[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplelinuxbkup/
[2]
http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=NewArchives&issue=92
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was rumoured to say:
Assuming (without prejudice) a member of the $RELATIVE, $SO or
$I_WANT_THIS_TO_WORK_BUT_DON'T_CARE_HOW category, what backup
solutions exist, obviously with GUI, for backing up filesystems onto an
external harddisk? It doesn't have to implement a sophisticated backup
strategy, but something basic, like making updates without doing the
equivalent of cp /home /media/disk would be helpful. The user in
aforementioned category has almost certainly no in-depth knowledge of
which directory on the system fulfils what purpose. Personally I use
rsync, but I'm in a different
user category so that's a dead end.
Did anyone look into this, and/or could make some suggestions?
Thanks,
Volker
