Backup software. . .

[krp]

I don't know about y'all but I have been searching for a very long time for a *simple* to use, reliable as rain, released under the GPL, desktop backup software.

Well, at long last I have finally found it: Simple Linux Backup (http://simplelinuxbkup.sourceforge.net).

I have been using it for about two weeks on three different machines and -- it just works.

Mondays are full backups.
All other days are incremental.

Simple and effective.

Enjoy.

[autek]

Thanks for the link to this. The install and setup were painless. I'll see at 10:00 this morning how it works. I have been doing manual backups which were quite time consuming and a rather PIA.

I'm not quite clear if you can send the backup directly to a DVD or not. How are you handling your backups ?

I just followed the basic setup, did you do the same or did you modify anything.

Ed

[autek]

Worked perfectly..........thanks again. Now all I need to do is burn them to a DVD from the backup folder.

Ed

[krp]

I have a separate file and backup server that I point the backups too. I then burn 'em to CD from that old server (333mhz but it works!).

Thanks for the link to this. The install and setup were painless. I'll see at 10:00 this morning how it works. I have been doing manual backups which were quite time consuming and a rather PIA.

I'm not quite clear if you can send the backup directly to a DVD or not. How are you handling your backups ?

I just followed the basic setup, did you do the same or did you modify anything.

Ed

[uteck]

Has anyone tried Mondo? It has a nice feature in that it will make bootable backup media, but I never can get it to make even a normal backup.

[autek]

OK, I give. I'm using Samba as a file server, how did you get the backup to your server. I tried several different ways, but nothing wanted to work.

Ed

[krp]

OK, I give. I'm using Samba as a file server, how did you get the backup to your server. I tried several different ways, but nothing wanted to work.
Ed

I don't run Samba, our home network is a 'Windows free environment'.

As such, each machine has NFS installed and the old file server has the NFS server stuff on it as well (the server is blocked from the Internet). Then it becomes a matter of pointing the backup to the server and letting her go.

Mine is as such: on the backup configuration page "Where to backup" I used the "final backup directory" and inserted "home/krp/share/backups" (that is where the shared or networked volume/partition is found on my drive when mounted).

Works like a champ.