Re: [Dorset] backup tools

2009-07-27 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim, I've also used afio for a number of years (to tape). It's advantage over tar is that compression takes place on a per-file basis, so less likely to end up with a totally useless backup in the event of local corruption. Yeah, I've wondered about that, but bzip2recover(1) lets me get

[Dorset] backup tools

2009-07-26 Thread Peter Merchant
which do you use? http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=895 Peter M. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-08-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info:

Re: [Dorset] backup tools

2009-07-26 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 26 Jul 2009, Peter Merchant wrote: which do you use? http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=895 I *used* to use KBackup, (no 10 in the list) and was perfectly happy with it. However, your post prompted me to go and look and I found that I hadn't been using *anything* since

Re: [Dorset] backup tools

2009-07-26 Thread Sean Gibbins
Peter Merchant wrote: which do you use? http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=895 I use Backup Manager [1], a command line tool that is reasonably intuitive and very configurable, in order to do weekly full backups and daily incremental backups. Sean [1]

Re: [Dorset] backup tools

2009-07-26 Thread Sean Gibbins
Terry Coles wrote: I *used* to use KBackup, (no 10 in the list) and was perfectly happy with it. However, your post prompted me to go and look and I found that I hadn't been using *anything* since the Kubuntu 9.04 update, because KBackup is no longer in the Repository. I had regular

Re: [Dorset] backup tools

2009-07-26 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 26 Jul 2009, Sean Gibbins wrote: I wonder how many people discover that their backups are not working or simply aren't suited to purpose just /after/ a disk dies on them? I suspect most of us have been there to a greater or lesser degree at some point! If your data is important

Re: [Dorset] backup tools

2009-07-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=895 It's odd they mention rsync but not one of the programs that kind of sit above it, e.g. http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/features.html which do you use? GNU tar. I figure it's a simple file format I can interpret almost anywhere I'm

Re: [Dorset] backup tools

2009-07-26 Thread Tim Allen
Hi On 26/07/09 12:27, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=895 It's odd they mention rsync but not one of the programs that kind of sit above it, e.g. http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/features.html I've been using rdiff-backup for a good few years