[AuckLUG] Backup

[Alaric]

Sorry I keep asking silly questions.  Can anyone point me to a backup
programme?  I tried the internet but all I could find were programmes
for large networks or requiring more programming than I can do.  I run
Mandriva 2008 courtesy of Linux Magazine.  I have always used drakbackup
and I did a restore about three years ago without trouble.
	Last month my hard drive went down and after I had re-installed 2008 on 
the new drive I tried to do a restore and ran into awful problems.
	Drakbackup would not recognize my pocket drive, when it did it resisted 
restoring and when I got it to restore it restored only two out of three 
backup files but none of the incrementals.  It placed one file in the 
designated directory and the other on the pocket drive where the
backups were stored.  It took me days to get the command line to
recognize the extracted directories so that I could change the ownership
and permissions and even then there were problems with copying back to
my home directory.
	I could write a shell script to back up using tar.  I think I know how 
to do incrementals and pipe output to the apprpriate device or directory.
	I don't want to start a flame war over distros but I do wonder whether 
I should ditch 2008 and revert to 2007 Spring, even though it does not 
recognize my scanner.  2008 appears to have some very odd features 
including regularly crashing sub systems like kdedit which hasn't 
happened to me since I was using Mandrake 9.2


Alaric