[AuckLUG] Backup

[David Hawke]

Alaric wrote:
> 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
Take a look at BackupPC - although it assumes that you have some storage 
on your system for the backups. It is straightforward to produce 
off-site backups from via its archive structure - essentially builds tar 
files which you then move to another device.

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net
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> Alaric
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