[wplug] Backup tool?

[Vance Kochenderfer]

"Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org> wrote:
> 
> Sam Al-Droubi <saldroubi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I am relatively new to Linux.  I am using Opensuse 10.3. I am looking 
> > for a simple and easy backup tool to use for backing up my personal 
> > files.  I want to backup my files to a USB hard drive or network drive
> > (nfs).  On Windows XP, I used to use ntbackup.  Is there a similar tool
> > on Linux to use?
> 
> man dump
> man restore

Simple and effective, yes, but perhaps not easy to learn for a new
user...

Personally, I just burn my files to DVD using k3b.  Unfortunately,
this is not on an automatic schedule, which means I back up a lot
less often than I should.

You might want to try out SUSE's backup tool built into YaST
<http://en.opensuse.org/YaST_System_Backup> (no personal experience
with it myself).

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