Re: Backup/Restore software?

[Jerome BENOIT <g6299304p@rezozer.net>]

Hello Dave,



On 12/07/13 02:42, David Guntner wrote:
> I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a
> program called Acronis True Image.  It works well, lets me backup my
> system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly full
> backup and daily incremental backups, cleaning up older backup chains
> and so on.
> 
> My Linux machine (Debian 6.0.7 at the moment, but planning on updating
> to Wheezy soon), on the other hand, has gone far too long without any
> real backup protection.  I'd like to rectify that if I can. :-)
> 
> Is there a Linux backup package that will do pretty much what I
> described above?  I want to be able to set it and forget it so it just
> runs every night on its own and that way I have about a week or two's
> worth of backups to fall back on.  I need it to be able to do a full
> restore in case of a disaster as well as being able to restore selected
> files/directories in case of a "oh why did I rm *that*?" moment. :-)
> 
> Any suggestions?

backup2l

> 
>                  --Dave
> 

Jerome