backup of my / filesystem

[Gregory P. Ennis]

On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 13:52 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 
> > I backup our system at work (500GB) using rsync. Our New York office
> > runs rsync against my backup volume. Over the years I have found rsync
> > to be a very reliable tool.
> 
> I just got BackupPC to work on my system, after hours of torture.
> (Is this the worst documented Linux application?)
> Effectively, BackupPC is a GUI front-end to rsync.
> Once set up it seems quite impressive to me.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Timothy Murphy  
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> 
Timothy,

Every time I get the chance to get into BackupPC I run out of time
trying to get a satisfactory starting point.  I agree with you about the
documentation.  Have you uncovered a good tutorial for it?

Greg Ennis