Quest8ion about what backup util to use.

[Les Mikesell]

Steven W. Orr wrote:
> I have a dirt simple backup scheme. I have a list of directories that 
> I back up and they all get copied to a disk that was put in just for 
> that purpose. I used to use something called flexbackup, but it 
> occasionally had problems and it hasn't been supported in years.
>
> I'd like to give it a conf file and have a full backup run of those 
> dirs once a month and then have incrementals done on a daily basis. 
> The resulting files should be somehow compressed and easy to access 
> when needed.
>
> (I go on the presumption that you only need your backup if you don't 
> make it.)
>
> Is there a favored util that will do what I want?

Backuppc is close.  It is really intended to back up multiple machines 
over a network with a web interface to browse and restore, but it will 
work locally and you can mount your extra disk in it's archive location.

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  Les Mikesell
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