backup my files...

[kevin79]

What is a good application to use to perform backups of my home directory? I have an external hard drive that I want the backups to go to and would like to be able to schedule it to run every Wednesday at like 9 am. I would also like to be able to keep previous copies of my files, like the last 4 weeks worth. What is a good program to use for this that is somewhat simple/intuitive to set up?

[Rog131]

Re: backup my files...

Maybe:

Creating Snapshot Backups Of Your Desktop With Timevault On Ubuntu 7.10
http://www.howtoforge.com/snapshot-b...lt-ubuntu-7.10

[kevin79]

Re: backup my files...

thanks. is there anything kde native though?

[Rog131]

Re: backup my files...

is there anything kde native though?

KBackup
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show...?content=44998

Description:
KBackup is a program that lets you back up any directories or files, whereby it uses an easy to use directory tree to select the things to back up.

would like to be able to schedule it to run every Wednesday at like 9 am.

You could schedule KBackup with KCron.

kbackup --help tells:

Usage: kbackup [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [profile]

Options:
--script <file> Script to run after finishing one archive slice
--auto Automatically run the backup and terminate when done. Works only if also a profile is given

=> In the KCron:

kbackup --auto /path/to/MyProfile.kbp