Best Backup software for Ubuntu 8.10

[Sambit Bikas Pal]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 15:43, gremlin linuxhelp <gremlin.est at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am looking for a easy to set up backup software for ubuntu 8.10. I have
> once tried AMANDA but the setup was so difficult that I gave up when virtual
> tape drives crashed when I wanted to label them. I need to backup from linux
> and windows XP computers. Please help me, I cant decide what to use since I
> have no experience with backuping.
>
Maybe you can have a look at rdiff-backup. http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/
It does incremental backups with reverse diffs, which means that older
versions of a file are also preserved.



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