Re: Good Linux backup program
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:47:51 +0100, Andrew Ingram <andrew@uk.clara.net> wrote:
> Just wanting to know if anyone on here has any recommendations for
> backup programs for my Debian box. I'm looking for a program with a
> nice, easy to use gui
Well my suggestions will fail that criteria
> which can do automated backups of parts of the
> filesystem and then store the backup on a smb mount.
A combination of a cron job; logrotate; and cp. Some people use rsync.
> I'd like something
> that makes it easy to extract individual files as well as extracting the
> whole archive.
Recursively backup a single directory, and insert symlinks to the
files you want to backup in this directory.
Hope this helps - a GUI tool may well exist but these simple tools
aren't too hard to combine.
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Jon Dowland
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