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 g
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
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'
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 importa
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 regula
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] http://www.backup-mana
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* sin
which do you use?
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=895
Peter M.
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