I have used tar for 15 years and its always been great. I suugest you pick up a copy of 'Unix Powertools" (Wiley & Sons ??). It should help you with practical real-life techniques for this sort of thing. Good luck.. On 17 Oct 2003 07:13:39 -0600 Donald Henson <wepin@wepin.com> wrote:
I have been using Linux (SuSE 8.2) for about two months. I need to backup my data. I have looked everywhere I can think of and have not been able to find simple (newbie-level) instructions on how to back up anything. I did find tar and that will work, I suppose, but it has a LOT of options. I thought I saw a gui program either in KDE or Gnome when I first installed Linux but I can't find it now. Would anyone like to take this newbie under his wing and earn his eternal gratitude? :-)
Don Henson