Hallo, I would like to hear whether there is a successful backup program for LInux which can compare in efficiency with the Dos backup software coming with the Iomega Ditto 2Gb.
I have been experimenting with backup programs on Linux since I installed an internal Iomega Ditto 2GB and a Ditto Dash controller card. I am running Debian Linux 1.3.1 with a 2.0.30 kernel on a 486 DX40 with 24 meg RAM. My experience with Taper is that it is a nice-looking program, easy to work with, but it uses a lot of memory, is slow and I could so far not make a single backup on tape (using ftape 3.04-beta-5) which verified correctly. I succeeded in using Tob to do a backup which I then can read and verify with afio, but tob would not restore from the tape or verbose the contents of the archive. It asks for the fsf position and when I type in 1 for the first archive, I get the message: afio: "/dev/nzqft0": No input. Fatal tob error: Listing of /dev/nzqft0 cannot be generated. The same message appears when I type 0 for the first archive. I can work with the tob-backups but the problem is that to restore a single file using afio can take a few hours because it has to run through the whole archive. I then decided to try Perfectbackup after I have read on the Debian-users list that there is a free version available. It seems to me that is no more the case. I then downloaded the Personal Edition for Linux, but I cannot get it to run at all. The installation instructions are poor and outdated (for version 1.3 while it is version 5.+) and when I try to run it, it always gives a segmentation fault. Is there any hope to get an efficient backup program? Johann. ------------------- Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
