[ale] Turn-key backup software

[Jim Lynch]

I attempted to use bacula a long time ago when my wife was still on 
Windows.  Never did figure out how to skip a directory with space in the 
name.  I tried all forms of backslash, single quote, double quote, etc.  
Nothing worked.  I gave up, started using rdiff-backup and never looked 
back.  Rdiff-backup is absolutely everything I need.  I don't need to do 
a partition dump.  I've installed enough distros that if I lose a disk, 
I'll just reinstall, copy my important files (home directory) over and 
keep on trucking (showing my age here).  I also keep a complete disk 
inventory including the output of rpm -qa or dpkg -l, df -h, fstab, 
mount, fdisk -l, parted output (in case of gpt), pvlist, lvlist and a 
few other things I've forgotten, generated periodically.

Jim

On 09/21/2015 06:06 AM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> http://blog.bacula.org/
> I don't use it. Found it too complex to setup.
>
> I've been using rdiff-backup for about 7 years now, but not on Windows. For
> Windows, I find a mix of quarterly images and nightly rsync push for just data
> to a Linux box