Backing up.

[Knapp]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 November 2008, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> > Ever take a look at Daromizer?   It run dar but it chops output into
>> > nice pieces, to fit on DVD's or CD's or whatever.
>>
>> KDar does that too.  I'll have to look at Daromizer.
>
> One thing Daromizer does is to run dar as a background task while it writes
> the previous piece to media.  So once it gets rolling (past the first piece)
> it gets to be pretty efficient.

So, is it true that there is no really good newbie friendly GUI based
backup program in the whole of Kubuntu? This seems to me like a huge
huge hole! Daromizer is not even in apt-get nor is Kdar.

Just to make sure I have the facts right.
dar is the best CLI backup program and it can do incremental backups.

Amanda is in Kubuntu but comes in 3 parts and is hard to learn.

rdiff-backup is a hard to use CLI but is good and is in Kubuntu?

DVDisaster is really good for archiving CD or DVDs but is hard to use
and must be used CLI to get the full usage that would be needed. It is
not for doing backups but can work.

One person uses tar (7zip is better) but that has no incremental
backup features.

kgpg to do a symmetrical encryption of the tar file save files in a
private way with Kgpg.

Keeper is lame.

One other point by me. The very best reason to have a GUI is so that
you can run a program that sets something complex up without having to
read the manual. Setups are often only done one or less times a year;
people forget CLI stuff faster than that. If you live the task then
CLI can be better. The other end of the task is hopefully done less
than one time decade, restoring what you lost. I would bet none of the
CLI guys can do it without looking back to the manual. Newbies don't
even know where the CLI manuals are!

Did I miss anything?



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