Backup solutions on Kubuntu

[.:M4y3.c0:.]

rsync is great... :)
     MY



On 10/18/06, Hawkwind <hawkwind at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 10/18/06, Brendan <mailinglist at endosquid.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wednesday 18 October 2006 12:56, .:M4y3.c0:. wrote:
> >
> > No, not rsync by itself.
>
>
>
>  What's wrong with using rsync by itself as a backup ?  I do it across my
> entire LAN on 8 different machines without any single issues.  It's quick,
> efficient and just plain works.  Hard to go wrong with rsync itself to be
> honest.  It saves time running tar or whatever to backup directories, then
> mv or scp them across the LAN.
>
>
> rdiff-backup is a great tool which simplifies rsync across multiple
> > machines,
> > etc.
> >
> > Also, with hard drives so cheap, what's wrong with just copying all
> > files to
> > another partition? The partition info ITSELF is not the important thing,
> > but
> > the data.
> >
> > And if the guy is asking about backups, is it a good idea to move to a
> > beta
> > system in any case?
> >
> > > rsync
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync
> > >
> > >       MY
> > >
> > > On 10/18/06, Richard Howes < newslists at resrequest.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > I am about to migrate from Dapper to Edgy. Before doing that I want
> > to
> > > > backup
> > > > my important stuff as suggested, which is probably the first time I
> > am
> > > > doing
> > > > this! ;-)
> >
> > --
> > kubuntu-users mailing list
> > kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users
> >
>
>
>
> --
> With kind regards,
>
> Cliff Wade (Hawkwind)
> Registered Linux User #362532 Registered Kubuntu User #331
> http://seerofsouls.com http://linuxfordummies.org
> http://urpmi-addmedia.org
> IRC Channels ( irc.freenode.net): #LFD #Kubuntu #Ulteo
> --
> kubuntu-users mailing list
> kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-users/attachments/20061018/77ac3bbe/attachment.html>