Alan Pope wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:38:11PM +0000, baza wrote: >> On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 14:30 +0000, alan c wrote: >> > London School of Puppetry wrote: >> > > Hi Jonathan, I agree but I think the problem is wider than just us isn't >> > > it....I'm concerned that non-groupy types....like most of the ordinary >> > > world should be able to access Ubuntu and other OSS >> > > and know that there is exactly the same expert support available as >> > > there is for Windows etc. Caroline >> > >> >> > I give phone support (free) if asked, for local contacts. I am not >> > any expert! >> > >> > When I began with linux a few years ago, I was experienced with online >> > use getting help, but found my local LUG of limited value for a number >> > of reasons. I like the idea of very local help. Experience to date >> > suggests that it is only the very initial questions that need answers, >> > reassurance included. >> >> The best advice anyone can give, IMHO, is to burn your 'home' directory >> to CD or DVD every month, that way if you system does the big firework >> you can reinstall and keep (most) of you data. >> > > Heh, that might not be quite so easy for many people. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ du -hs . > 100G > > Maybe time to get one of those new fangled HD-DVD or BD burners ;) > > Alternatively you could use a nice backup tool such as SBackup [0] or > HuBackup [1] to selectively backup the stuff that is important > like documents, photos and email, skipping the less important stuff (and > bulky stuff) like games (which can be re-installed) or (in my > case) qemu/virtualbox virtual machine images:- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/vm$ du -hs . > 53G > > Cheers, > Al. > > [0] http://sbackup.sourceforge.net/ScreenShots > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HomeUserBackup >
Kubuntu offers kde keep, (as does suse with kde). This did not work in suse and does not work with dapper or edgy I think. Others have also found this. The backup periods are offered to be set but are ignored, giving hourly only, for example. IIRC python has to be installed first manually also. A bit of a guess for me - I accepted most stuff that seemed python related..... Keep promises to be *exactly* what I require, and have always required. I just wish it worked. It is based on rdiff-backup, which I now actually use from cl etc, but I strongly prefer gui. I think I tracked one problem back to lack of all dependencies. Keep really is easy, and rdiff-backup is a good base. If Keep stays in the kde menu (system), then it hopefully should work. If I had more time I would persue it. I am not fully well just now also. -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
