04-02-2014, 09:50 AM
Hi Rob and gold_finger. Many thanks, especially the simulation command.
I've read about lots and now trying some. This could be a go/no go for Linux. I've read about many packages but lots of them have been developed by one person and "die" when they stop development, often many years ago.
On XP I've used True Image v8 for many many years and think it is great [though I understand later releases became bloatware
]. It does partition images and can do it on a live system. To recover a single file, I simply open the image which then mounts as a new virtual partition and then navigate a familiar file hierarchy. Restore of a single partition is simple, even the Windows "root". I have numerous partitions for data of varying update frequency and therefore take automated backups at a frequency to match.
I've not seen anything on Linux so far that's comparable. Would be happy to pay for something that is easy to use, reliable, automated, backups whole partitions but allows single file recovery.
Have tried Clonezilla (clunky), Dupliciti (needs another look) and Redo (highly dangerous - almost lost all my data). I will add luckybackup to the list.
Alan
Quote:P.s. Don't know which backup programs you've tried already, but one called luckybackup works well for me. It is in the Software Center. Here is their homepage: http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/index.html
I've read about lots and now trying some. This could be a go/no go for Linux. I've read about many packages but lots of them have been developed by one person and "die" when they stop development, often many years ago.
On XP I've used True Image v8 for many many years and think it is great [though I understand later releases became bloatware
]. It does partition images and can do it on a live system. To recover a single file, I simply open the image which then mounts as a new virtual partition and then navigate a familiar file hierarchy. Restore of a single partition is simple, even the Windows "root". I have numerous partitions for data of varying update frequency and therefore take automated backups at a frequency to match. I've not seen anything on Linux so far that's comparable. Would be happy to pay for something that is easy to use, reliable, automated, backups whole partitions but allows single file recovery.
Have tried Clonezilla (clunky), Dupliciti (needs another look) and Redo (highly dangerous - almost lost all my data). I will add luckybackup to the list.
Alan