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[Sandy Drobic <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stan Goodman wrote:
> I would be grateful for advice about backup software appropriate for my 
> situation, and for remarks people using such utilities, including what to 
> avoid. I can see that there are several packages available through YaST, 
> but it would be helpful to know what others think about them and about 
> relative advantages.
>
> I have only one Linux system here, so network capability is not important. 
> I do not have a tape drive, but would be read carefully any remarks about 
> whether I need one. If not, then it would have to be something capable of 
> bridging DVDs for a total backup, and  probably CDs for incremental 
> backup.

Use a second hdd and rsnapshot. It is cheap, reliable, effective, will give 
redundant backups and you can run it as a cronjob, meaning that you won't have 
to do it manually.

The initial setup is rather straight-forward.

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Sandy

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