Linux.com: CLI for Noobies: Got Backup?

"Quick. When is the last time you backed up your system? Unless you are a system administrator by trade, I bet 95% of you haven't done so recently. If you suffer a hard drive crash, you stand to lose all your recent email, work, notes, photos, bookmarks, and whatever. One reason for that might be the paucity of a easy to use backup tools. Let's bury that reason once and for all.

"I found two CLI tools with the same name: Simple Backup. One was written as a shell script, the other was written in Perl. The GPLd shell script--written by Tim Wright in New Zealand--doesn't seem to have been maintained the past year so I decided to focus on the Perl script, written by Miguel Angelo Martins Leite..."

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