[Wolves] backing up methods

[Mo Awkati]

> Hi folk
>
> Hope you can help.
>
> I have an external (USB) storage drive which I use to backup my data to.So
> far I just used drag and drop to transfer the data over but that takes
> ages. I tried Simple Backup but could not be sure if it was doing the
> business. There is no indications that Simple Back up has done the job and
> when I try to view the archive folder it created (after 3 hours) I just
> get the egg timer and nothing else. It appears that Simple Backup does the
> job in a matter of minutes, is that usual? I know it depends on th amount
> of data, but we are talking about 4.5G of data, photos, videos etc
>
> Any suggestions on a simple and speedy backing up process?
>
> Cheers
>
> Mo
>
>
>
 > Now I admit I haven't tried this yet myself, but there is a nice looking
>script at http://andri.dk/tech/linux/usb-backup which should help - or
>at least point you in a direction that you can work on from... ;-)

I will give a try, many thanks. I put Simple Backup on and went out this afternoon, so I am going to try and transfer data onto the new Ubuntu 9.04 install :-)

Many thanks

Mo


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