[SOLVED] what is your favorite backup program?

joseph2020 · 02-18-2011, 11:46 PM

I installed Sbackup from synaptic. Now I am wondering if there are better backup programs for Ubuntu(I did read favorite backup solution poll in "find similar threads).

I just need something very basic. I plan on doing thr backups manually about once per week, so I don't need anything too fancy or with too many options. What's your favorite? (tar doenn't count). Thanks in advance.

repo · 02-19-2011, 01:41 AM

rsync

Perhaps you can look at
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ice-awards-93/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2010mca.php

Kind regards

joseph2020 · 02-20-2011, 02:17 AM

repo, Thank you for your reply. Those links came in very handy. Sbackup didn't even make the count. I found something called lucky backup, a gui for rsync, and I will give that a look. Thanks again.

tommcd · 02-20-2011, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by repo

rsync

One more vote for rsync here from me.

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Originally Posted by joseph2020

I found something called lucky backup, a gui for rsync, and I will give that a look.

There is also grsync, which is also a GUI front end for rsync in case you would prefer that.
Note that rsync is installed by default in Ubuntu, while grsync is available in the Ubuntu repos.
Here is a tutorial on rsync:
http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise...ert-with-rsync
I have found that the man page for rsync is exceptionally well written. It has lots of examples to help you learn how to use rsync.

joseph2020 · 02-21-2011, 02:30 AM

tomcd, thank you. grsync looks good, and I have downloaded it and installed via Synaptic. I will be taking a close look at it, but it seems like what I am looking for. Thanks again.

on a related topic what do you actually back up. I used to have a list but that went with the old distro. Definitely /home/joe, /etc, what else?

tommcd · 02-22-2011, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by joseph2020

... what do you actually back up. I used to have a list but that went with the old distro. Definitely /home/joe, /etc, what else?

I just back up my data. I have never bothered to back up system files in /etc, or anywhere else. I suppose if you have a lot of program customizations in /etc, then it would be good to back up those files in /etc in case you ever restore your operating system.