On Sunday 07 November 2004 04:44 am, Hugo wrote:

Hi!

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:22:45 -0600, Jim Worrest wrote:

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Gentlemen: I've been looking around for backup programs for my SuSE 9.0 Pro. I understand that Bacula and star are good programs to use for backing up files. It would be interesting to hear other opinions. ---Jim

Same here! I thought that a "Professional" OS would come with decent backupsolution - just compare to WinXP: it has a great backupsoftware that can even backup files that are use (only it doesn't do any software compressions itself). But from SuSE... we get nothing. Well there is tar, but it is hardly comparable... and probably can not handle open files correctly.

Suggestions are welcome (rather OpenSource or otherwise freeware as 9.1 Pro already costs enough...)

-- HG ==========

Don't mean to sound rude to you guys, but it seems neither of you know how to ask a question or don't know how to use your software. Maybe both. Hugo, talking up WinXP and slandering SuSE is not likely to get you a whole lot of attention, except bad, on this list. If in your mind that's how you accomplish relating to people or getting answers, then you might want to seek help. There are several backup programs available and I'm not going to do your work for you either. Open YaST2 and do a search for them. Go on Sourceforge.net and do a search for them. It's really not that difficult, oh wait, I guess it is, since neither of you have bothered to look already. :o) Regards, Lee

On Monday 08 November 2004 08:22 am, Carlos E. R. wrote:

The Sunday 2004-11-07 at 20:01 -0500, BandiPat wrote:

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work for you either. Open YaST2 and do a search for them. Go on Sourceforge.net and do a search for them. It's really not that

While that is true, I find yast backup lacking a lot, and that's not the only one. When I think of backup, my mind goes back to the old plain dos pctools backup, circa 1990, and I have yet to find something similar in features and speed.

-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson ===========

Yes, but that is only one of many backups provided Carlos. Reread the sentence or did I need to put start YaST2 and open the Install/Remove software module to do the search? Regards, Lee -- --- KMail v1.7.1 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 "Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!"

On Sunday 07 November 2004 07:01 pm, BandiPat wrote:

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Suggestions are welcome (rather OpenSource or otherwise freeware as 9.1 Pro already costs enough...)

-- HG

Two that come to mind are the open source rdiff-backup (http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup) and the commercial BRU (http://www.tolisgroup.com/). I'm trying the demo version of BRU at the moment -- so far so good. It's a command line tool, but it's a very mature product. The personal edition is quite reasonably priced. Anyone else use either of these? -- Stephen If your desktop gets out of control easily, you probably have too much stuff on it that doesn't need to be there. Donna Smallin, "Unclutter Your Home"

On Sunday 07 November 2004 09:44, Hugo wrote:

Hi!

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:22:45 -0600, Jim Worrest wrote:

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Gentlemen: I've been looking around for backup programs for my SuSE 9.0 Pro. I understand that Bacula and star are good programs to use for backing up files. It would be interesting to hear other opinions. ---Jim

Same here! I thought that a "Professional" OS would come with decent backupsolution - just compare to WinXP: it has a great backupsoftware that can even backup files that are use (only it doesn't do any software compressions itself). But from SuSE... we get nothing. Well there is tar, but it is hardly comparable... and probably can not handle open files correctly. Yast has a backup program KDat is on the discs so is Kdar need I go on.

Suggestions are welcome (rather OpenSource or otherwise freeware as 9.1 Pro already costs enough...) But not as much as Windows XP Pro