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- robdiggity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I know I'll catch tons of heat for this, but it's quitting time and my better judgment is fatigued after a long day....
Why is every Linux related story always cast from the Ubuntu context? I got nothing against Ubuntu per se, I just think it does more harm than good to the greater Linux zeitgeist to only hold up a single distro.
Linux != Ubuntu (or any other single distro for that matter) - dfwlinuxguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I've been using sbackup on my desktop for some time now and I highly recommend it. Very easy to setup, yet very powerful. I love it!
- schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5That is a very nice front end to scp/rsync. It's one among so many and it looks powerful yet simple.
- kirker187, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The problem I have with programs like this are the permissions. From the article:
"Note:- By default Restored Files and Directories are owned by root this is because of sbackup will runs with root.You need to chnage these files or folder permissions using chmod or just right click and select properties of the file or folder."
What happens if you have to restore the whole root partition? You have to go manually reset all the permissions? I will use partimage on SystemRescueCd. I am going to look into rsnapshot, thanks greensky.
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page - dumbkiwi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Also have a look at rdiff-backup as a relatively easy to use remote backup option:
http://liquidweather.net/howto/index.php?id=56 - kushed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I disagree, Debian is a great distro, derived from other promising distros, and Ubuntu is just a evolution of that, other distros will evolve from Ubuntu and ubuntu will be last weeks news. I run RedHat for my web server and my firewall is a Gentoo. I have tried Fedora for a desktop as well, but honestly Ubuntu is what got me off windows.
Just my personal experience. - dsn0wman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Seems like a waste of time for your home directory if a restore changes the ownership of all the files to root.
- kushed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4This is exactly why I chose Ubuntu, there are so many resources and tweaks out there that I can't even keep up. Ubuntu made computing exiting for me once more. Thank you all for your contributions.
- dfwlinuxguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Re: Robdiggity,
I remember way back in the early days of my consulting business that when anyone would ask questions about Linux they always meant Redhat. Since there are so many ways to do the same thing depending on which version of Linux you are using, I would always end up asking them which distribution they were using. I finally just started giving the Redhat answer to the problem. You can't change human nature. You have a large number of users who have never tried more than one "Linux" and they don't realize that there could be anything different between the distributions. At the moment, the distribution that has most users attention is Ubuntu. Why fight it? Just enjoy what you're using and let the rest roll off your back. sbackup will most likely work on your favorite flavor as well. - Ademan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Maybe regular expressions are a bit "out there" but they're incredibly powerful, i've just started to get into them, i'm using them in a project i'm working on, they're incredible.
- foobarra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You can mount fat32, ntfs, hfs, hfsplus, ufs, xfs... many other partitions under linux, so yes.
- seuaniu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You can use regular expressions if you choose for the more advanced filtering, but sbackup has a built-in tab for filtering different types of files, sizes, etc. Its usable for the typical desktop backup, but has advanced features for those that can use them, but don't want to use something like amanda or bakula.
- greensky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like rsnapshot (rsnapshot.org), which looks to be pretty similar to rdiff-backup
- cybrjoe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3"... intended for desktop use." != "regular expressions"
- orb9220, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"It can backup any subset of files and directories."
Does that include fat32? If it is rsync under the hood then I believe rsync does not due fat32.
I could be wrong. Anybody else knows?
If it is true then the heading is incorrect about "any file or folder" - orb9220, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0When you use rsync to sync an ext3 partition onto a FAT32 partition, a couple of things happen. One is that the FAT32 partition isn't going to like certain filename characters that are ok in the ext3 partition ... like filenames with ":" in them. The result is that files coming off of the linux/unix servers can't be stored correctly on the FAT32.
So as I read this and other's this is not a good option for people with backing up to fat32. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Have to agree with robdiggity on this.
I haven't used the program but I believe this program should be able to run on most Linux distributions and is NOT Ubuntu exclusive. It does make the front page look kind of silly and amature-ish - AuraithX, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1@rob
Ubuntu is currently the best flavour available. Before this it was Mandrake (now Mandriva) and previously it was Red Hat (now Fedora Core) it changes every couple of months.
I'm running Ubuntu 6.10 edgy and it's brilliant :)
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