[CoLoCo] Best backup solution

[Jim Hutchinson]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Dave Vanderploeg <
dave.vanderploeg at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is a problem with Ubuntu when geeks have trouble with backups. This
> script to run a backup is way too complicated. I certainly don't see how to
> convert non-geeks when something that should be simple reaches this level of
> complexity.


In all fairness, no OS had a good backup tool until recently. I hope Linux
gets there soon too.


>
> Personally I use RSYNC, and I have had it scheduled with CRON in the past,
> though at the moment I've been doing it manually through GRSYNC. I like
> GUI's. I'll be going back to cron shortly. Jim, you live somewhat near your
> parents, right? I would set up an external drive at their house an rsync to
> that. Off site storage is true security. Did you try TimeVault? Does it use
> rsync as its base?
>
>
I haven't tried TimeVault yet. It look a bit unfinished. I've using rsync
lately but I don't like it. It's a bit cryptic to use and hard to know
exactly what command does what you want. I've been using

rsync -av /path/to/source/ /path/to/dest

and I think it works but not sure. I usually get one or two error messages.
If anyone has a good suggestion as to what to put in a cron job script I'll
give it a try.

Thanks,
-jim

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