In my wiki (sorry, in Catalan) I explain how I setup an Iomega Home Network Hard Drive, I mount it and access it via Samba, and I make local backups and remote backups to this drive with rsync.
http://www.empresalibre.org/wiki/index.php/Iomega_Home_Network_Hard_Drive_320GB http://www.empresalibre.org/wiki/index.php/Backup_UbuntuServer.sh Joan Quintana --- On Thu, 1/29/09, Kim Cascone <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Kim Cascone <[email protected]> > Subject: studio backups > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009, 2:15 PM > I've been researching that blind spot in the Linux > community: a > decent backup app > and have read various people recommending tar, dd, dump, > rsync, > partimage, clonezilla, etc etc > each person has their favorite way to do backups and each > is woefully > lame in offering a concise step by step HOWTO > the road of FOSS is littered with half-baked apps that get > crap > support by their disinterested developers > > I've tried most of these apps but none of them seem to > have the exact > set of features I'm looking for > ease of use, ability to cron, flawless backups, informative > error > reporting, etc. > > I am using an app that I like <somewhat> called > QuickStart > QS is basically a script that provides a front end for > partimage and tar > and while it backs up my two partitions ('/' + > '/home') with tar > my '/home' partition (/dev/sda5) gives an error > message with > QuickStart/partimage > > so I've been using QuickStart/tar for my 2 partitions > with some success > I say 'some success' because I have yet to test > them by restoring them > > there is also Grsync, and Simple Backup which both have > their plusses > and minuses > neither of which seemed ready for prime time > > I'm still waiting to test clonezilla which seems > promising - and > seems to be a favorite among the more demanding users > > anyway, I know that backing up is still a black art in > Linux-land for > some reason > so I wanted to ask people here what they use for backing up > their > precious audio and session files... > > q: what is your favorite backup app and why? > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
