Re: [opensuse] Suggestions for backup software?

Stan Goodman wrote:
I would be grateful for advice about backup software appropriate for my situation, and for remarks people using such utilities, including what to avoid. I can see that there are several packages available through YaST, but it would be helpful to know what others think about them and about relative advantages.

I have only one Linux system here, so network capability is not important. I do not have a tape drive, but would be read carefully any remarks about whether I need one. If not, then it would have to be something capable of bridging DVDs for a total backup, and probably CDs for incremental backup.

Use a second hdd and rsnapshot. It is cheap, reliable, effective, will give redundant backups and you can run it as a cronjob, meaning that you won't have to do it manually.

The initial setup is rather straight-forward.

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