Curses, my mailer sent the forwarded message as an attachment.... On Wednesday, 28 June 2017 14:14:04 BST PeterMerchant via dorset wrote: > The main reason for doing backups is in case my system goes bang I can > restore it. In the past I have been lucky when I have reinstalled > kubuntu 'over' the old version. When I rebuilt the other computer > from XP to kubuntu, even though I had backed it up, I discovered that > not everything got backed up - like my firefox bookmarks.
Peter, I've always gone for an incremental backup program; currently Simple Backup Suite (http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/best-linux-backup-software-8-tools-on-test-909380/3). It's in the (K)Ubuntu repositories and 'just works'. I've only had to restore a complete system once, but I don't recall having any 'missing bits'. It will take the contents of your /home directory (or any other that you specify) and compress everything into a tarball. The next time you do it, it will only take the changed files until it's time to do another full backup. For restoration, you get a calendar from which you can select the most recent backup that contains what you want (you may have intentionally deleted something three weeks ago, which you now find you want.) To limit space on the destination drive, you can specify the period that backups will be retained before being purged. I tried various backup software over the years, but this one has met my requirements fully since it arrived on the back of a Google 'Summer of Code' some years ago. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-07-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
