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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:00:39 +0000

When restoring with this app, your partition should have enough free space, or the disk will be full and sbackup will run forever. The problem is sbackup does not tell you about this, and you will not know what to do then.

By: Telco

Telco — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:43:13 +0000

If you delete a file from your previously backed up directory structure, and then you run the backup again, does it remove those files from the backup? Or does it just add new files to it, keeping the old deleted files?

I know it does an incremental backup, so it can grow the backup, but if you delete files, does it shrink the backup, deleting the deleted files, or does it create a whole new backup, which takes a long time?

By: GMGJ

GMGJ — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:45:44 +0000

Thanks. I got to this page searching for how to get at /var/backup so that I could write the backups to a DVD and put that DVD in my firesafe.

On this page, it is written:
However, it’s not difficult to burn a backup to disk yourself manually.

Newbies need to know how to do this.

By: Restore

Restore — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:40:52 +0000

Thanks.

By: web

web — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:07:42 +0000

Backups are for wussies and remember to keep your /home partition on an separate partition.

But dugg for ann easy solution to some of your backup needs on Ubuntu.

By: Doubting Thomas

Doubting Thomas — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:35:50 +0000

I’m a newbie. I have understood this article but…
1. Clearly restore as explained above assumes access is possible from the PCs GUI.
2. Ghost (Windows) allows for situations where the PC OS is inaccessible and a self booting restore cd (or some app like BartCD that may independently accesses and run the restore app in the HD), may be used to reinstall the OS and apps.
3. Can you do this with SBackup?
4. Thanks