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Creating Snapshot-Backups with FlyBack On Ubuntu 7.10

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Creating Snapshot-Backups with FlyBack On Ubuntu 7.10

FlyBack
is a tool similar to Apple’s TimeMachine. It is intended to create
snapshot-backups of selected directories or even your full hard drive.
From the FlyBack project page: “FlyBack is a snapshot-based backup
tool based on rsync. It creates successive backup directories mirroring
the files you wish to backup, but hard-links unchanged files to the
previous backup. This prevents wasting disk space while providing you
with full access to all your files without any sort of recovery
program. If your machine crashes, just move your external drive to your
new machine and copy the latest backup using whatever file browser you
normally use.” This article shows how to install and use FlyBack on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon).

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