I've had good success with Back In Time. Robin
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Mel Walters <melwalt...@telus.net> wrote: > 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 >
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