Re: Flash memory as a backup for the Home directory

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Gear
Geoffrey wrote: Having installed grsync I am about to buy an external memory to back up my Ubuntu home directory. For what I do on a PC I don't need much memory. At present there is 5.6 Gb on the HDD. This will increase but probably never exceed 20 Gb. The smallest and cheapest external disc

Re: Flash memory as a backup for the Home directory

2010-03-02 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2010-03-02 09:54:03 UTC+1000, Geoffrey (gcomb...@bigpond.com) wrote: Having installed grsync I am about to buy an external memory to back up my Ubuntu home directory. grsync looks good. I use rsync regularly but wasn't aware of a GUI frontend for it. However I have found a USB flash

Flash memory as a backup for the Home directory

2010-03-01 Thread Geoffrey
Having installed grsync I am about to buy an external memory to back up my Ubuntu home directory. For what I do on a PC I don't need much memory. At present there is 5.6 Gb on the HDD. This will increase but probably never exceed 20 Gb. The smallest and cheapest external disc drive is a 2.5 250 Gb