is it not now the time to get really serious about having a backup facility for Opensuse?

I have seen replies about backups for the OS called "rsync", "kdar". etc and etc and etc.

All of the these sound like they are aimed at the "geek", or in the period when men wore spats and women had to hide their ankles.

Cannot someone, involved with developing/writing, openSuse come up with a backup application, along the lines now available, for the <shudder> and <dreaded> Windows OS, like Acronis et alia, for an Opensuse system?

I dont know if it's close to what you need, right now I'm using storeBackup (you can google it). I think this one backup is good enough for my need. I use it my main backup server. Runs every night, and creates folders base on daily backup. All files were compressed and only changed files that backuped. And it's easily to restored if we needed. storebackup still using HD for the media, and right now I still not using any tape backup.. :D Give it a try, you might like it.. :-) regards, -ARZ- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

2007/11/21, Basil Chupin <blchupin@tpg.com.au>:

There is a thread in this forum about making backups of a 'Linux'/ Opensuse OS.

I've read them, and I am absolutely and thoroughly 'put-off' by what I have read.

I now ask:

is it not now the time to get really serious about having a backup facility for Opensuse?

I have seen replies about backups for the OS called "rsync", "kdar". etc and etc and etc.

All of the these sound like they are aimed at the "geek", or in the period when men wore spats and women had to hide their ankles.

Cannot someone, involved with developing/writing, openSuse come up with a backup application, along the lines now available, for the <shudder> and <dreaded> Windows OS, like Acronis et alia, for an Opensuse system?

Ciao.

There's mondo, written by a guy working for HP. It's not fast but i will restore your system to the point it was before the failure. A good approach would be to use mondo to backup de system exclusively and use the other available tools to backup raw data (/home, multimedia files, etc). Ciro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org