Linux.com: Simplifying Backups

[ Thanks to Daniel McCarthy for
this link. ]

“Most computer users don’t make use of a system backup tool
until after they suffer the misfortunes of a hard drive crash
without one. But even then, many find backup software too
complicated to configure, and there seems to be little in between
creating CD or DVD archives by hand and overpowered network backup
systems designed for the enterprise. The Simple Backup Suite
(sbackup) is a tool for configuring regular backups of system data
and simplifying full and partial recoveries.

“A product of Google’s 2005 Summer of Code, sbackup is a set of
Python scripts accessible through a graphical interface. The
current release is available as an architecture-independent .deb
package or a tarball, and will install two GUI tools,
simple-backup-config and simple-restore-gnome…”

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