From: Hung Dang <hungptit@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: backup program recommendations?
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:48:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B00242.1050704@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gopjcq$jbm$2@ger.gmane.org>
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Hung Dang wrote:
>> James Wall wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am looking for a backup program that can back up to my DVD+-R/RW
>>> drive
>>> to back up my private portage tree/distfile/music/web server. What
>>> programs would you recommend to handle this task?
>>>
>>> TIA James Wall
>>>
>>>
>> You can try k3b
>
> Well, that's not a backup app. But anyway, I don't use a "backup app"
> either. I just tar.lzma the whole thing and burn it :P
>
>
My bad :( I thought it is the program to write to DVD.
I am not sure what you want. In my case, I combine a bash script to
compress, rsync ... with cron to do the back up weekly. It seem to be
quite convenient.
If you have big files using rar is faster and save more space than tar.
Hung
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-05 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-05 20:55 [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations? James Wall
2009-03-05 15:10 ` Hung Dang
2009-03-05 22:23 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-03-05 16:48 ` Hung Dang [this message]
2009-03-06 0:49 ` comrade b14ck
2009-03-05 22:57 ` James
2009-03-06 5:33 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2009-03-06 11:55 ` Robin Atwood
2009-03-07 14:29 ` James Wall
2009-03-07 16:38 ` Dale
2009-03-08 14:10 ` Robin Atwood
2009-03-08 14:48 ` Dale
2009-03-08 18:53 ` James Wall
2009-03-12 10:39 ` Geralt
2009-03-12 10:44 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-03-13 9:42 ` Liviu Andronic
2009-03-13 12:20 ` Robin Atwood
2009-03-13 3:25 ` fei huang
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