Re: [opensuse] Suggestions for backup software?

For safety reasons It still recommend external hardware.

Software is a matter completely different. There are lots of good and
better software packages out their. However, I did not find anything
that satisfied my needs (I need to exclude ans sometimes include
directories/file type and even sometimes change user). So, I wrote a
bash script with a specification input file to get the job done.
Due to speed issues, I am thinking of converting this to C to get some
speed improvements when I use the --mirror option.

Still, if you use a straight forward backup, cp wile do also.

Again, be warned to use a second HDD within the existing system. If your
Power Supply burns out, your backup is bound to be destroyed too.

KR,
Frans de Boer.


On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 23:47 +0200, Sandy Drobic wrote:
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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