Re: Good Linux backup program
Thank you everyone for your suggestions! I'll look at all the suggestions (including the non-gui ones!) and decide which best fits my needs. It's great to have a nice list of things to try as I hadn't heard of most of the ones you guys pointed out. Thanks, Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good Linux backup program
On 2004-06-26, Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > > Backup2l works. (That's an l, not a 1). > I absolutely second that. I've been using it for months and it performs flawlessly. It's a commandline application and the original poster was asking for a GUI, but how hard can "backup2l -l pattern" to list files and "backup2l -r pattern" to restore them be? Once you set up the config file, you forget about it. If you are interested in an incremental backup program that is easy to set up (as compared to industrial-strength solutions like amanda), and uses standard tools (tar, gzip/bzip2, etc.), you should definitely check it out. The debian package comes with a ready-make cron job, and another big plus is that in the config file you can set up pre- and post-backup commands. I mirror my local backup directory to an ftp server using just that. -- Ivan Fernández [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good Linux backup program
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:30:17 +0200, Brad Sims wrote: > On Friday 25 June 2004 11:19 am, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: >> Bacula, Amanda. > > Mondorescue is my pick, Free and it works as advertised. > The mailing list is quite active, if you have any questions and I just write my own with bash scripts, tar and (sometimes) scp, backing up /boot /etc /home /usr/local and my installed package lists (dpkg --get-selections > foo). -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good Linux backup program
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Katipo wrote: > > > > Bacula, Amanda. > > > Amanda breaks when employed in conjunction with some applications, e.g., > Bastille. > > Backup2l works. (That's an l, not a 1). a good backup system does NOT need a gui .. - configure it and forget about it .. no need to be clicking here and there - test it once in a while by rebuilding a new box from bare metal - most of the free backup scripties http://linux-backup.net/App/ c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good Linux backup program
Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: Em Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:40:09 +0200, Andrew Ingram escreveu: anyone on here has any recommendations for backup programs for my Debian box. Bacula, Amanda. Amanda breaks when employed in conjunction with some applications, e.g., Bastille. Backup2l works. (That's an l, not a 1). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good Linux backup program
On 2004-06-25, Andrew Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Just wanting to know if anyone on here has any recommendations for > backup programs for my Debian box. I'm looking for a program with a > nice, easy to use gui, which can do automated backups of parts of the > filesystem and then store the backup on a smb mount. I'd like something > that makes it easy to extract individual files as well as extracting the > whole archive. Does anything like this exist? BTW, I use KDE so anything > that integrates well with that is a bonus. > I at my Company use Arkeia. Does everything i want. You can even tell Arkeia to store backups 20 GB Files, than on tape. But it is not really easy to use... But it rueles! -- Chrissie get my gpg public key at http://www.haschmir.de/chrissie-web.asc Linux ibiza 2.4.25 up 96 days -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good Linux backup program
On Friday 25 June 2004 11:19 am, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > Bacula, Amanda. Mondorescue is my pick, Free and it works as advertised. The mailing list is quite active, if you have any questions -- I'd explain it all to you, but your brain would explode. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good Linux backup program
Em Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:40:09 +0200, Andrew Ingram escreveu: > anyone on here has any recommendations for > backup programs for my Debian box. Bacula, Amanda. -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corsetti Dutra +55 (11) 5685 2219 Av Sgto Geraldo Santana, 1100 6/71[EMAIL PROTECTED] 04.674-000 SÃo Paulo, SPBRASIL http://br.geocities.com./lgcdutra/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good Linux backup program
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:47:51 +0100, Andrew Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wanting to know if anyone on here has any recommendations for > backup programs for my Debian box. I'm looking for a program with a > nice, easy to use gui Well my suggestions will fail that criteria > which can do automated backups of parts of the > filesystem and then store the backup on a smb mount. A combination of a cron job; logrotate; and cp. Some people use rsync. > I'd like something > that makes it easy to extract individual files as well as extracting the > whole archive. Recursively backup a single directory, and insert symlinks to the files you want to backup in this directory. Hope this helps - a GUI tool may well exist but these simple tools aren't too hard to combine. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good Linux backup program
Andrew Ingram wrote: Hi! Just wanting to know if anyone on here has any recommendations for backup programs for my Debian box. I'm looking for a program with a nice, easy to use gui, which can do automated backups of parts of the filesystem and then store the backup on a smb mount. I'd like something that makes it easy to extract individual files as well as extracting the whole archive. Does anything like this exist? BTW, I use KDE so anything that integrates well with that is a bonus. Thanks, Andrew Wow, there are many MANY ways to skin this cat. But I would suggest that a GUI isn't going to "do it all" without getting really complicated. For example, you could set up a backup server (Amanda or Bacula for example). Then install the backup client on your Debian box. Set up the SMBshare from the storage system. Mount the share on your Debian box. Then use the backup server gui to configure your backup client and schedules. The same backup application gui could be used to browse and restore the backups. But this is pretty complex and involved. If you just get past the "GUI" hangup, this becomes a very simple matter. To do automated/scheduled backups to a samba share you probably just want a cronjob that calls a simple shell script that backs up the dir's/files you want to a gzipped tar file with an appropriate name (that contains the date/time for example) the gzipped tar file gets put in the directory where the SMBshare is mounted. To browse your backups and extract things you could use "ark" (a gui program) -Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good Linux backup program
Hi! Just wanting to know if anyone on here has any recommendations for backup programs for my Debian box. I'm looking for a program with a nice, easy to use gui, which can do automated backups of parts of the filesystem and then store the backup on a smb mount. I'd like something that makes it easy to extract individual files as well as extracting the whole archive. Does anything like this exist? BTW, I use KDE so anything that integrates well with that is a bonus. Thanks, Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
