Re: [BackupPC-users] Help for a beginner?

2007-11-29 Thread Martin Fisher
! On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 22:11 +0100, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > Martin Fisher wrote: > > > It is now clear that trying to use backuppc is not really > > appropriate in > > this case. > > > > I have now looked at a whole range of things, and unfo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Help for a beginner?

2007-11-29 Thread Martin Fisher
a zip archive of my home drive to the external drive. It works but is tiresome and has a number of problems. On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 13:20 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Martin Fisher wrote: > > Thank you for your patience! > > > > This is my aim: To set up backuppc to make daily inc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Help for a beginner?

2007-11-29 Thread Martin Fisher
an be on my way... Martin On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:55 -0500, David Nalley wrote: > On Thursday 29 November 2007 11:45:04 Martin Fisher wrote: > > Dear All > > > > After trying various possibilities I have decided that backuppc is what > > I would like to use to backu

[BackupPC-users] Help for a beginner?

2007-11-29 Thread Martin Fisher
Dear All After trying various possibilities I have decided that backuppc is what I would like to use to backup my pc on a daily and weekly basis. I installed backuppc on Ubuntu 7.10 and am trying to get started. I want to use backuppc quite simply - to backup from my computer to an external hard d