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RE: [PLUG] single-user backup suggestions
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I have a lot of success with flexbackup and cdbkup. I have used multicd with some success as well.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/flexbackup/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdbkup/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/multicd/
I am archiving over 24GB of data with these utilities.
Kam Salisbury
http://salisburyfamily.us
-----Original Message-----
>From: "Chris Duryee"<duryee@gmail.com>
>Sent: 6/12/05 3:19:54 PM
>To: "plug@lists.phillylinux.org"<plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
>Subject: [PLUG] single-user backup suggestions
>I'm trying to figure out a way to do backups of my hard drive (a PC
>that's only used by myself, running Gentoo) to files which will be
>burned to DVD media. Any suggestions and/or experiences would be
>helpful.
>
>My main goal is to have files created overnight in a directory for me to
>burn at my leisure.
>
>Right now I'm debating between dump and tar. Any suggestions? Most
>information that I find online is for server backups, not for
>single-user machine backups.
>
>I have ~2.5GB of critical files that must be backed up every few nights
>(system and home directory stuff), and ~45GB of media stuff that only
>needs to be backed up incrementally every month, to add new files. My
>system is pretty quiet at night, except for running emerge scripts that
>download things for compilation later in the day (after I can check its
>pretended output for sanity).
>
>--
>Chris Duryee <duryee@gmail.com> PGP: A9016BD6
>
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