Re: [Dorset] Alternative to Simple Backup Suite

2018-04-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday, 30 April 2018 14:07:52 BST Graeme Gemmill wrote: > Terry, I use DAR and DarGUI. Using cron-driven scripts: I found dar in my Package Manager, but not darGUI. Are you sure that's what it's called? > complexity, it can be used to create differential backups. I use it to > write to a B

Re: [Dorset] Alternative to Simple Backup Suite

2018-04-30 Thread Graeme Gemmill
On 30/04/18 13:00, dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote: Message: 1 Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 14:37:47 +0100 From: Terry Coles To: Dorset Linux User Group Subject: [Dorset] Alternative to Simple Backup Suite Message-ID: <1573608.J2GtCk13DV@optiplex> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Re: [Dorset] Alternative to Simple Backup Suite

2018-04-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday, 30 April 2018 11:56:54 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > My ReadyNAS does support FTP, but apparently only if the source PCs > > are Windows or Macintosh machines. > > So, it doesn't support FTP then. :-) I just discovered that it does support FTP to Linux machines if you are using the b

Re: [Dorset] Alternative to Simple Backup Suite

2018-04-30 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > My ReadyNAS does support FTP, but apparently only if the source PCs > are Windows or Macintosh machines. So, it doesn't support FTP then. :-) Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-05-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/

Re: [Dorset] Alternative to Simple Backup Suite

2018-04-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday, 30 April 2018 11:05:26 BST Terry Coles wrote: > I'll report back on what I find in case anyone else is interested. Apparently remote destinations are only supported on Windows and Mac and then only using an FTP connection. My ReadyNAS does support FTP, but apparently only if the sour

Re: [Dorset] Alternative to Simple Backup Suite

2018-04-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday, 30 April 2018 08:48:54 BST PeterMerchant via dorset wrote: > And I am sure that you have looked at freefilesync. It is what I have > been using since this discussion on here about a year ago. It's GUI, > easy to set up destination storage folder so that you can do periodic > full backups

Re: [Dorset] Alternative to Simple Backup Suite

2018-04-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday, 30 April 2018 08:52:38 BST Hamish MB wrote: > I used to use something called Back In Time that might serve your > purposes, have you looked at that? It's also a GUI for rsync, but it has > some pretty cool features. I now do offline backups with Mondorescue, > but I used to find this hel

Re: [Dorset] Alternative to Simple Backup Suite

2018-04-30 Thread Hamish MB
I used to use something called Back In Time that might serve your purposes, have you looked at that? It's also a GUI for rsync, but it has some pretty cool features. I now do offline backups with Mondorescue, but I used to find this helpful. Hamish On 30/04/18 08:48, PeterMerchant via dorset wro

Re: [Dorset] Alternative to Simple Backup Suite

2018-04-30 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
On 29/04/18 16:29, Tim wrote: Have you looked at Lucky backup? It is just a GUI for for rsync but I find it a lot easier to setup via the gui then you can output the command to a straight cli command. What I have done in the past where I have several backups to give me weekly and daily backup