On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> Actually, I think this is why I added the --inplace flag to dirvish.
> I have been using pybackpack, a GUI front end for rdiff-backup. Works > pretty nice. To add to the archival record, allow me to present the tool I've used for a dozen years for both incremental and full backups to tape. (I do believe it will back up to other media, too, but I use tapes for my backups.) The tool is called BRU and is now sold [desktop is free, at least for a trial, I believe] by The Tolis Group <http://www.tolisgroup.com/>. It's not free, but it has been a super-solid, reliable workhorse. I've restored individual files, directories, and bare-metal restores to a new drive the one time the main hard drive failed. Perhaps buying a solution is not attractive or justified for a personal setup, but a reliable backup tool was what I required to migrate my business computing to linux. As far as I'm concerned, for a business daily incremental backups and weekly full backups are mission-critical. BRU has never let me down. And, if you want to use tapes for backups, I can unequivocably recommend the Tandberg SLR drives (other than the '5'). My SLR-60 has performed flawlessly for 7 years now, and I do buy new tapes now and then. :-) Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
