I do almost exactly the same thing for backups. I have 2 hard drives in my
linux machine so I backup one to the other.
One of the slick things about it is that I have a Windows machine and so
does my wife. We keep our important files on the linux machine and access
them via samba. Then I backup our files to the other hard drive in the linux
machine in tar.gz format. Now, here is the really slick part: Winzip can
open and read tar.gz files. So if my wife needs to do a restore, she just
has to double click on the tar.gz file, find the file she wants to restore,
and double click on it.
I actually backup everything in her space everyday. It takes a heckuva lot
of disk space though. I don't back up everything in my space. Plus, if
you're a more sophisticated user, you could just backup changed files. Tar
will do that. But I just backup everything in her space every day so that
she won't have to poke around looking for a file.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Gorse" <mgorse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: backing up my linux system
It isn't clear from your post what you want or to what medium you're
backing up (ie, a tape? Another hard disk? A remote machine?)
I'm not sure if I'm recommending this, but I simply have a file in my home
directory called backup which lists names of files and directories that I
can't recover. Every once in a while I run something like
tar -cf mpgbak.tar.bz2 `cat backup`
and copy the resulting file onto another machine where I have an account.
But I'm not backing up my whole drive this way; only things that I
consider particularly important, and I am certainly missing some things...
Anyway, there are surely ways of doing this without using the GUI unless
you want to use the GUI, so I'd certainly recommend exploring whatever
options people have told you about and anything anyone else might suggest.
-- Mike Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.freeshell.org --
On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, michaelweaver wrote:
What would anyone suggest for backing up my Linux system which is
accessible with either Speakup or Orca?
I know when I was using Ubuntu 6 I tried using Sbackup only I could not
get past the first screen because speech stopped and I do not know if
this has improved with the latest versions of Orca although there are
command lines for the application.
Someone on the Ubuntu UK list suggested it and also suggested Ubackup.
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