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can someone recommend a backup utility that I use on a machine running DSL, please.
I have an old Dell pentium II that I want to set up to backup all my data files over a network. I could use ntbackup in windows but I obviously want to get away from M$ stuff.
thanks for those links people. I have had a look at them and they all seem a bit complex. tar and s tar seem to backup files while I want to back up whole directories in an incremental manner. That is, only backup directories and the files in them that have been changed.
The backup utility in XP seems fairly straight forward to use, just tick the directories to backup and the destination and schedule the task. Something in DSL would be nice.
My company needs a backup tool to be able to manage the data of some other companies remotely. The data of the other companies should be stored at our server and the backup process should be done dayly or weekly and if possible automatically (but i think the problem is not the automation here). I have to manage project data and I also have to manage entire databases (Oracle, MySQL and maybe PostgreSQL). Does anyone know about such a backup utility?
That would be great if it has a GUI, but that's not really necessery.
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