[Tfug] backups

Harry McGregor micros at osef.org
Thu Apr 15 22:06:54 MST 2010


Hi,

Look at dirvish (perl based), and backuppc

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

                Harry



On 4/15/10 9:12 PM, christopher floess wrote:
> There were a couple of interesting looking gui frontends for this, but
> the only one I could track down for my system was pybackpack, which
> didn't work, so I think I may need to give rdiff-backup a try. Looks
> like it has potential though.
>
> Thanks
>
> -- Chris
>
> On 04/16/2010 05:26 AM, JD Rogers wrote:
>> (I haven't used it as much as I should but,) my plan is to make more
>> use of rdiff-backup which uses rsync, but is slightly higher level.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Zack Williams<zdwzdw at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>   
>>>> I recommend rsync.  It's drop-dead simple and only transfers the parts
>>>> of files that have changed.
>>>>        
>>> +1 on rsync.  For my large/media files, that's what I use.
>>>
>>> Another option is to keep your working set of data in version control
>>> - I have git repos for all my important data, pushed offsite on a
>>> regular basis.
>>>
>>> - Zack
>>>
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