[PLUG] What are the most viable backup options for linux

[sankarshan]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Chaitannya Mahatme
<chaitannya at gmail.com> wrote:

> I wanted to install an automatic backup and restore for my laptop. I wanted
> a solution which would take incremental backup of my primary partition every
> week or so.
> In case of disk failure I should be able to use a live cd and restore the
> disk in last good condition ?

<http://www.schwieters.org/fsync/>
<http://www.samba.org/rsync/>
<http://live.gnome.org/DejaDup>
<http://duplicity.nongnu.org/>

Since it is a laptop, I am assuming that

- your partition size isn't too large
- you would like to script it into a cron which backs up

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sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/>