I use Simple Backup to do automated daily backups to an external USB drive.
The drive is Fat32 formatted so if anything goes wrong with my Ubuntu installation I can easily restore my home folder. It seems to work well. Stuart -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Flynn Sent: 18 September 2007 22:54 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] External hard disks and backup strategies On 18/09/2007, David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On the other hand, a plain-old USB hard disk seems the simpler option. I would naively assume that as USB is now well-proven technology, these would work just fine with Ubuntu, but is that the case? How easy would it be to automate backups to such a disk? Would it mount with a persistent mount point, or would it change with every unplug or system reboot? Then there is the question of what backup strategy I should actually use. I was assuming that an automated rsync every week would be the easiest, but perhaps there are other possibilities? Something automated, once configured, without requiring user intervention is an absolute must: the whole point of doing backups is that I don't have to remember to do it! Typing as someone who is about to precisely the same thing I too would be most interested in the experiences of those who have walked this road already... Actually, that reminds me that I need to order the USB hard-drive enclosure that I promised myself least week... -- Steve When 1 person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
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