[ubuntu-uk] Advice on backing up Ubuntu machine

[alan c]

doug livesey wrote:
> Hi -- I've recently switched my main dev machine from OSX to Ubuntu Ibex,
> and would like to start implementing a regular backup regimen.
> In OSX I used TimeMachine, an excellent app that has saved my arse on more
> than one occasion.
> I've seen that there are supposed to be equivalents, like FlyBack (which I
> haven't managed to get working, yet), but thought a quick straw poll on what
> other ubuntu geeks are using could be helpful.
> Cheers,
>    Doug.

also consider
sbackup
(In repos)
an app from the google summer of code.
Could do with more refinement, but it is the first app I have found 
simple and useful at my level of complicated domestic use.
-- 
alan cocks
Ubuntu user #10391
Linux user #360648