On Friday 06 Aug 2010, Peter Merchant wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 20:43 +0100, Peter Merchant wrote:
> > What does anyone recommend. I want to backup selected files/directories
> > from my data disk. Been meaning to do this for months.
> >
> > K3B fails with a msioft(?) module error that is apparently well known
> > when doing data files,
> > One of the forums recommended brasero, which takes forever (>4 hours)
> > calculating checksums, so I gave up on it.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> That's copying data files out to DVD by the way.
Hmmm. I didn't answer this originally, because the last line of Peter's
message led me to believe that he was looking for a backup utility that was
designed to write the data to a CD. Most of the replies so far seem to be
about the front end data gathering and not the CDRW capability.
For what it's worth, I use Simple Backup Suite, which is in the *buntu
repositories as sbackup. It does full backups and incrementals and has pretty
good configuration capabilities. The only problem is that there is a bug in
later versions of *buntu, which mean that although you can use the GUI to
configure the backup, but it has to be started with 'sudo sbackupd' in a
shell. It will then write the backup to the defined destination, which I
guess would have to be on a hard disk initially, but this could easily be
copied off to a CD later. (Once you've found a CD writer package that works
for you.)
I can't comment on whether this package is better than the others mentioned,
but I find it quite simple to use and I've successfully round-tripped my data
to prove that it works.
--
Terry Coles
64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux
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