[Lvlug] Debian Backups

[David L. Johnson]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 06:52:34 -0500
Darryl Gibson <n2diy at losch.net> wrote:

> I tried using a program called sbackup, and it seemed to do a good job 
> scheduling full and incremental s, but it's restore program is severely 
> lacking functionality. When you click on restore, there is no progress 
> indicator, so you are left to guess when it is complete!?
> 
> When I restored from sbackup, it made a hell of a mess. For every full, 
> and incremental I restored from, it didn't overwrite files, it 
> duplicated them.

I've never used anything other than cp (I copy everything to a backup
partition from time to time) and tar (making archive files I move to another
computer).  Those are simple to use, easy to put into scripts so that you
don't have to remember options, and they are reliable.  sbackup sounds like
it is anything but reliable.

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David L. Johnson

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