On 23/2/2007, "Eur Ing Chris Green" cl@isbd.net wrote:
What do others here use to backup data on their machines (if anything!)?
I'm looking for something a bit more friendly (and clever) than just tar or rsync but nowhere near as big and complex as backupbuddy or backupPC. So is there anything 'in between'?
I must admit I've tried several different approaches from the complex to the simplistic and I've finally settled on PartImage.
I never have any partition bigger than 5Gb (although I suspect that, in reality, you could get away with larger as partimage does compression if required) and then boot from a copy of SystemRescueCD <www.sysresccd.org> to create backup images that I can burn to a DVD+RW. Obviously you need a spare partition to hold the backup images.
I've a colleague here at work who only uses Windows and he also uses this approach (I'll get him onto Linux yet! :o) ). And, yes, before you ask we have tested a restore using a spare hard disk and it works for both Linux and Windows.
It should be possible to automate the whole process with a customised copy of the systemRescueCD. There's a very useful pdf manual in the root of the CD that explains how to do this.