Backup software

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

As I have mentioned before, I backup both my home directory, my systems config files, and a 
couple of other directories as well as my wife's Windows system. I use a very simple script, which 
simply mounts my wife's Windows C partition, and performs either a tar or rsync. I have found that 
rsync is a bit better than tar in that it will not copy files that have not changed. In the past, I found 
that the Energy Star tends to cause tar to fail. The advantage of tar (or cpio for that matter) is that 
you can keep multiple backups. The advantage of a commercial backup package is that you can 
manage incremental and full backups. Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org