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Re: User-oriented backup tools

From Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: User-oriented backup tools
Date 2017-02-17 00:50 +0100
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On 16/02/2017 21:26, Glenn English wrote:
> No. I've never used it, but a friend of mine does. And it takes forever
> for him to do a backup. So I assumed it was dd.  Maybe it's that other
> OS X disk clone 'backup.'
> 
> But when he's done, he doesn't have an incremental backup, just a clone.
> Better than nothing, but not wonderful for programmers and lawyers who
> have to retrieve last week's version.

CCC has either cloning feature and backup feature. It simply let you
choose during the initial steps. I've always used it in the backup
"mode", but sincerely i don't think it relies on dd even for cloning.

dd is for low-level, byte-to-byte, copying, dumping.


> Amanda, IMHO, is the proper backup. But 'simple', 'user friendly', and
> 'amanda' should never appear in the same paragraph. There's significant
> futzing required to get it going. At least mine did, back in the DLT days...

I never saw those DLT days... :)

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User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-15 23:40 +0100
  Re: User-oriented backup tools Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-02-15 23:50 +0100
    Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 11:50 +0100
      Re: User-oriented backup tools Glenn English <ghe2001@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 18:30 +0100
        Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 19:10 +0100
          Re: User-oriented backup tools Glenn English <ghe2001@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 21:30 +0100
            Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-17 00:50 +0100
  Re: User-oriented backup tools Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-02-16 01:10 +0100
    Re: User-oriented backup tools "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-02-16 03:50 +0100
      Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 11:50 +0100
        Re: User-oriented backup tools Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-02-16 22:50 +0100
  Re: User-oriented backup tools solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-02-16 06:50 +0100
    Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 11:50 +0100
  Re: User-oriented backup tools <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-16 09:20 +0100
    Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 11:50 +0100
      Re: User-oriented backup tools <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-16 12:10 +0100
        Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 14:30 +0100
          Re: User-oriented backup tools <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-16 15:00 +0100
  Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 12:00 +0100
  Re: User-oriented backup tools Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-02-16 12:20 +0100
    Re: User-oriented backup tools Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-02-16 12:30 +0100
      Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 14:30 +0100
        Re: User-oriented backup tools Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-02-16 15:00 +0100
          Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 17:40 +0100
            Re: User-oriented backup tools Glenn Holmer <cenbe@kolabnow.com> - 2017-02-16 17:40 +0100
              Re: User-oriented backup tools Chen Wei <weichen302@icloud.com> - 2017-02-17 09:40 +0100
    Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 14:50 +0100
  Re: User-oriented backup tools Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 13:20 +0100
    Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 14:40 +0100
      Re: User-oriented backup tools Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 14:50 +0100
        Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 15:10 +0100
          Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 17:30 +0100
            Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 19:00 +0100
          Re: User-oriented backup tools Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2017-02-16 17:40 +0100
            Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 19:10 +0100

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