[Nottingham] Re: PC backup programme recommendation?

[James Gibbon]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 18:55:03 +0000
"Sarah Swindell" <windyswindy at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I'd like to backup the linux bit of my hard drive. I've got a spare, smaller 
> hard drive I could put my data onto or a cd writer (which I'd prefer to use 
> as it doesn't involve me crawling under the desk to get to the eide/power 
> cables inside the PCs case).
> I've found a programme "Bacula" (great name) in Kpackage, but it seems to be 
> for backing things up across a network.
> Does anyone recommend me a nice programme to use? (preferably something I 
> can get using Kpackage which has a GUI)


How much do you need to back up? It's fairly easy to back up to CD or another
hard drive using a combination of tar, mkisofs and/or cdrecord; unless your
backup requirements are a bit exotic there's no need for specialised backup
software.

James


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