desktoplinux.com— This how-to provides an easy method for non-technical Linux users to backup their important data. It's simple, easy to set up and use, and can be completely automated.
Jul 11, 2006View in Crawl 4
A simple backup method is 'Copy the files you would hate to loose to another disk on a regular basis. Files you may wish to consider worthy of back up are anything in your home directory and any system configuration files which you have altered'.A method which requires an explanation as long as that article cannot be described as simple.
True, you could use a commercial product such as this. I'm not adverse to using commercial products myself, but others might be. Also, it costs $49.95 more than my "product!!" It's Windows-only, which only works for Linux users who dual boot. And it's proprietary vs. open source.Other than that, it looks fine. :-)-- Steve
Steve // thanks for such a great job!Now, all i have to do is see if i can implement it. Have tried KDar and several other backups but they don't seem to either have enough features -- select directories and subdirectories to backup and deselect ones not to, or just plain crash and burn when i finally get everything set up and selected and deselected and...Even tried Ark, trying to keep it simple, but it, too, couldn't access it's 3.5 Gg tar.gz which it had finally created. Arg.Is there anyplace to ask questions once i start trying to implement this? i'm on Freespire and have two computers, a main Freespire and another one friends who come over use, both connected through a wireless Linksys. Just want to backup the main to the "other" one whenever the "other" one becomes available.Again, thanks for so much work. It's also a great primer on backups... Have a great day!
snypaJul 12, 2006
Very useful, I was managing well with this untill now, but this is much easier.
kdeheadJul 12, 2006
if you have a home network and multiple machines,you might as well use rsync instead.
arizonagrooveJul 12, 2006
A simple backup method is 'Copy the files you would hate to loose to another disk on a regular basis. Files you may wish to consider worthy of back up are anything in your home directory and any system configuration files which you have altered'.A method which requires an explanation as long as that article cannot be described as simple.
iamjayJul 12, 2006
I was going to post this too.I've been doing this for a few years. It works very good especially the hardlinks trick.
tristanteeJul 13, 2006
why not use Acronis True Image 9.0 Home its just like Norton Ghost, you can take an whole image of a linux partition.
steveingbgJul 13, 2006
True, you could use a commercial product such as this. I'm not adverse to using commercial products myself, but others might be. Also, it costs $49.95 more than my "product!!" It's Windows-only, which only works for Linux users who dual boot. And it's proprietary vs. open source.Other than that, it looks fine. :-)-- Steve
frazelle09Nov 19, 2006
Steve // thanks for such a great job!Now, all i have to do is see if i can implement it. Have tried KDar and several other backups but they don't seem to either have enough features -- select directories and subdirectories to backup and deselect ones not to, or just plain crash and burn when i finally get everything set up and selected and deselected and...Even tried Ark, trying to keep it simple, but it, too, couldn't access it's 3.5 Gg tar.gz which it had finally created. Arg.Is there anyplace to ask questions once i start trying to implement this? i'm on Freespire and have two computers, a main Freespire and another one friends who come over use, both connected through a wireless Linksys. Just want to backup the main to the "other" one whenever the "other" one becomes available.Again, thanks for so much work. It's also a great primer on backups... Have a great day!