On Sun, 2014-04-20 at 19:35 -0600, Joe S wrote: > I am looking for advice on what is a good method/program to > backup. I am using this for a home computer. Will backup to a > separate hard drive and some info on a DVD. I have used rsync, > but am wondering if there are other methods that would do this > as well or better. > > Thanks > I can give a somewhat general answer for an average user.
I have been looking at the GUI lucky-backup that uses rsync. Seems to work well as a simple solution if you are backing up some sub directories off of your /home/yourname directory. Pay attention to the "Type" category. You might want to try a test directory to see what happens. If you do your home directory you could potentially end up with too much dot file and dot directories data that could add up big time on a modern Linux workstation depending on what is installed. But there is a way to select exclusions with the advanced mode. Do you like that solution? People usually also want 1/ email address 2/ book backup and browser Mel _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
