Mar 9 13:14:54 CST 2005

I personally like to use afio for backup due to it being more robust than tar and you can get a single file out of the archive without having to restore the archive - it also allows splitting of volumes and incremental backups etc.

A good set of scripts to drive this is found in backup21 as in apt-get install backup21 . Its simple but works well with afio. its focus is to backup to a hard disk partition, which i periodically copy to cd as needed. Since the incremental archive is not that large, I find that managing large disks using cd as a backup medium works quite well.

Michael.

NB, tob is also the front end of afio.

documented on: 2005.05.05