[HLUG] SATA drive question

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

Quoting Paul Stenning <paul at vintage-radio.com>:

> Yes, Simple Backup creates one huge .tar.gz compressed file for the full
> backup.  For incremental backups it makes a .tar.gz file containing just
> the files which have changed since the last backup.  So you could
> restore files from any backup, not just the latest.
>
> It's not the same sort of thing as SyncToy.  For that functionality in
> Linux you should be looking at rsync or Unison, not at a backup program.
>   Both are in the Ubuntu repositories.  Unison has a GUI whereas rsync
> is command line.  With either you need to use CRON with command line
> parameters if you want to schedule them.

Backuppc will also do this (it uses rsync amongst other technologies)  
and has a very nice GUI - it may be overkill for this situation though.

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

Regards,

M.
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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
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