Re: backuppc questions.

[Michael Richter]

Please allow me comment on your use of backuppc for a moment.

Please do.  :-)

I don't know that backuppc is what your looking for.  Unless your backing up a
bunch of computers, I doubt that its going to be worth setting this
program up.  If you are only backing up one(maybe at most 5) computers I
would suggest  backupninja and a usb hard drive. 

Well, I picked backuppc under the mistaken impression that having the "Ubuntu Supported" icon next to it meant it was ... supported.  ;-)  I'm open to using anything that simplifies my task for now.  Backuppc doesn't sound like the program to use in this case, so I'll take your kind suggestion instead.

I would further
suggest using the rdiff-backup backend for everyday use and cd-r backend
for weekly or monthly use.  If your really paranoid you can use
duplicity(instead of rdiff-backup), to encrypt your backups.

I have no luck at all with CD-R backups.  I find them highly unreliable and they tend to fail without any kind of warning that there was a problem.  So I think I'm covered only to find out that I've lost years (literally, in one case!) of work with no chance to recover.

I'll be using a USB disk for backing up.  Thanks for the pointer to backupninja.

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