On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 11:10 +1030, Callan Davies wrote: > > Simply Backup all goes well to the point of pressing the "backup now" > > button and the "A backup run is initiated. The process id is xxxx " > > message is displayed. After that, there is no sign of activity - that I > > can see. I presume that it is working in the background. Though it > > doesn't present a time line or any other message to say where or what is > > going on. I don't know if/when it is done. > > > > 1. What do I do after the "A backup run is initiated. . . ." message? > > 2. Does it work reliably? > > 3. Is there a better product/process? > > 4. Any other comments? > > > > Hi Dave, > > I use SimpleBackups at home, plus two other networks that I manage. All > three locations have data on a NAS device, and back up the the local > machine. > > I use the 'custom' backup settings, with a full backup every 30 days. I > use logarithmic backup retention. > > Basically everything seems to work fine. > > My suggestion would be to add the system monitor applet to your panel, > and configure it to show CPU, Load and Disk. Then go to Simple Backups > and click the RUN BACKUP NOW. Hopefully you see the graphs start to do > something! > > The RUN BACKUP NOW button just starts a manual backup, which I always do > for the first run. Then I just let it run its own schedule after that. > > I've found it works really well, but I can't say I've ever tried a restore. > > One function I would love to see, is some sort of log file, log email or > on-screen notification that backups have (1) started, (2) completed, > (3) failed. > > Right now, it's possible to shut your machine down in the middle of a > backup and you'd never know until you tried to restore data that was not > there. > > Hope my comments have helped. > > Cheers > Callan > > >
Me too has installed the simple backup on three machines. Backing up was set up and then left for good, what I changed was the backup location and the retention of old backups due to space issues on the notebook. I copy or burn the backup files to a DVD or a external HDD on a irregular basis (bad I know, but better than nothing I guess). I haven't used the restore function but I've used the tar-archive created by simple backup to to a complete clean system reinstall. After the install I unpacked the archive and moved stuff back where it belonged. I had one unfortunate event while using simple backup. I wanted to upgrade a xubuntu machine and ran a complete backup b4 the upgrade. All documents and settings where backed up but NOT audio and video files (e.g. mp3) as well as files larger than 100mb. So I lost a few mp3 files - but I only realised this after I repartitioned :-( currently my backups are around 1.1 GB, I don't know how large the tar files can get or if there is a split option. Hope this helps, sEb
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