Comments on: LUP018 A Simple Backup Solution http://www.linuxuserpodcast.com/2009/09/18/lup018-a-simple-backup-solution/ The Archive of Linux and Open Source News Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:50:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Vic Jones http://www.linuxuserpodcast.com/2009/09/18/lup018-a-simple-backup-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Vic Jones Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:09:54 +0000 http://www.linuxuserpodcast.com/?p=774#comment-32 Thanks very much for a great informative nd well presented podcast. I really enjoyed this episode. However, when I tried sbackup I founnd it to have two serious drawbacks. Firstly, it had no progress indications. I was trying to use it on a laptop, backing up to an external usb hard drive... and I needed to leave in a couple of hours. It gave me no indication of when it would be likely to finish, and in the end I just had to shutdown. Not very useful. Secondly, I couldn't see any way of verifying the backup. To me, one thing worse than no backup is a being under the mistaken impression that you have backups. It's been a while since I tried sbackup, so these issues may have been fixed - if so, please disregard this post. Once again, thanks very much for the podcast. Thanks very much for a great informative nd well presented podcast. I really enjoyed this episode. However, when I tried sbackup I founnd it to have two serious drawbacks.
Firstly, it had no progress indications. I was trying to use it on a laptop, backing up to an external usb hard drive… and I needed to leave in a couple of hours. It gave me no indication of when it would be likely to finish, and in the end I just had to shutdown. Not very useful.

Secondly, I couldn’t see any way of verifying the backup. To me, one thing worse than no backup is a being under the mistaken impression that you have backups.

It’s been a while since I tried sbackup, so these issues may have been fixed – if so, please disregard this post.

Once again, thanks very much for the podcast.

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