On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 00:46 +1000, Intrusion Detection Account 000 wrote: > Dear Kenneth, > > Thank you very much for the help abd assistance in recommending > Microlite BackupEdge. > > I found another sophisticated application 'cpio' however due to its > lack of GUI and complex switchers and syntax - this is of likke help > right now
I have very little knowledge when it comes to using cpio. If I knew more about programming I might attempt writing a gui for it, but a programmer I am not. This is a hint to others on the list that may have the ability and time, there are many such programs without a gui that keep people from migrating to linux. > > If you have the time, perhaps in a private email are you able to shed > some light on the above win a private email. > > It was a difficult ask and only probable a few would understand fault > tolerance. > > At other times I have buck copies my working PC to an NFS Drive and > similar things have happened as not even Konqueror seems not to have a > verify option and things sometimes happen. > One of the things I really liked about using BackupEdge was the ability to do a total restore in case a harddrive went bad. BackupEdge provides a way to boot from the backup media and restore everything. And with it doing backup verification you could be much assured ( not guaranteed ) that you had a reliable backup to work with. Another program you might look into using is tar ( a version that is supposed to work with ACL's is star ). You could create a tar file that can be burned to DVD and used for restores. Another is mondo/mindi for backups/restores. Search in google for more info on mondoarchive. Also lets keep this on the list as others may benefit from this thread and others might correct me if I give faulty info. Also please refrain from top-posting and add you comments to the appropriate place like I just did. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
