[Fedora] semi-OT: easy backup solution for FC5

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 13/10/2007, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/10/2007, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > But, for a single machine you might just use an exteral USB drive (or
> > rotate a couple) with a script that rsync's each filesystem to it.
>
> Another alternative is rdiff-backup, which gives you a really simple
> way to make incremental backups.  It's packaged for fedora, so just a
> yum install rdiff-backup away.
>
>  http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/
>

Also, there's some work started on a really nice backup gui tool,
system-config-backup:

http://www.pembo13.com/projects/system-config-backup/

seems it's not release ready yet, but worth keeping an eye on...
though there's no news entry for over a year.