External USB hard drive for backup?

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:34:13 -0800 (PST), user.ubuntu DeleteThis @yahoo.com wrote:
> Hardy Heron is running here. I need suggestions for an external (USB
> connection) hard drive for backup.
>
> Something in 160 gig would do.
>
> Also, a GUI to the command line tools would be nice. Something like
> Carbon Copy Cloner for Macintosh OSX
>
> Thanks.

Here is what I do. I have a 1tb usb drive which I bought from newegg for
a few hundred bucks. I formatted the drive with XFS. There are a number
of simple tools (often simple is best) that you could use for backups
like rsnapshot and rdiff-backup. Neither of those have fancy gui's but
rsnapshot's configuration file is pretty easy and it also has a number of
decent options for checking disk space on the backup device, etc.

I don't use a graphical tool at all. I found a few decent rsync scripts
which do what I need. I run them every night from cron and since I'm a
bit paranoid about backups, I also backup to a different system and then
that system backs up to another USB drive which is the same model and
size. The "sanity" backup occurs once or twice a week.

I think you could implement a very decent backup approach by buying a
nice usb external drive and building some basic rsync scripts or using a
simple tool like rsnapshot...

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:28:11 UTC in comp.os.linux.hardware, Michael Perry
<mperry DeleteThis @lnxpowered.org> wrote:

> I think you could implement a very decent backup approach by buying a
> nice usb external drive and building some basic rsync scripts or using a
> simple tool like rsnapshot...

You could look at duplicity

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Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK
Trevor dot Hemsley at ntlworld dot com