Backup tool for home computer

[Eberhard Roloff]

Александр Горлов wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> 
> Could you advise me tool that more suitable for backup data on home
> computer under Ubuntu.
> This tool should support incremental and full backup.  GUI is
> desirable (my wife is not engineer).
> I investigated several repositories and found several packages that
> proposes backup service. But I cannot select particular tool based on
> notes in package description. May be anybody share his/her experience
> in this area.

apt-get install rsnapshot

very easy to configure, can backup not only localhost, but also other 
Linux Computers or other Windows Computers. In any case differential 
backup but also it looks like daily full-backup because of hardlinks.

But No GUI at all, oh I forgot to mention:

At my Linux customers' I usually create an icon labelled 
"backup+shutdown". Behind this there is a script:
kdesu rsnapshot daily; shutdown -h now

Since then, they use exactly this icon to switch off their computers. 
Guess, what happens: Backup is done automagically, any time, daily and 
reliably.

have some fun

Eberhard
Eberhard