Which backup solution would you recommend?

[niel]

On Thursday 06 December 2007 08.06.32 Bazooka Joe wrote:
> applications -> add/remove has 18 or so backup progs that have stars
> that rate them when you search for backup.  I'm not trying to be a
> dick but i see you aren't getting much useful info from other people.
> I deal w/ backup on servers mostly and we use dump. It is a good/great
> command line utility but no gui that i know of.  tar is the most
> common backup method and the one i use to backup my workstation.  If
> you are trying to push your backup over a network to another computer
> i would look at amanda, bacula and rsync.  if you find something good
> in the add/remove let us know.
>
> On Dec 5, 2007 4:12 PM, Geoffrey Lane <freeballer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am running latest xubuntu v7.10, and looking for a way to backup my
> > settings, logs, user profile.
> > I would love to have a gui and command line "version", but need
> > something that I can include and
> > exclude files/folders and wildcards (eg. *.jpg). Something fairly easy
> > to setup and will backup to a file
> > format I can use between clients and os (eg. tar, zip, 7z). Would also
> > be nice if it would upload to shell,
> > ftp site, of smb and schedule-able
> >
> > can someone please make a recommendation?
> > Thanks for your time,
> > Geo
> >
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Flexbackup

sudo flexbackup -set all  (first backup)

sudo flexbackup -set all -level incremental (following backups)

/etc/flexbackup.conf

man flexbackup
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Backup2l

sudo backup2l -b 0 (first backup)

sudo backup2l -b (following backups)

/etc/backup2l.conf

man backup2l
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I have used both above, they work ok
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Partimage

I have ubuntu on one partition of 40 gb, and use the Partimage program, from a  
systemrescuecd live cd (I do not use any compression, to save time).

I have backuped with partimage and restored several times, and it works fine.
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I have all my backup on external harddisk.