[NTLUG:Discuss] Backup options for Kubuntu 8.04

[Stephen Davidson]

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Wayne Dahl wrote:
> Ok, here's the scenario.  I'm about to resize my /home partition to take 
> all the space on the 300 Gig drive it currently resides on (it's 
> currently only taking 1/2 the space), but before I do, I want to back it 
> up first.

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> 
> The application Keep fails (it's a front-end for rdiff-backup), sbackup 
> claims it's done and there is only 4 Gigs in the backup file (I know it 
> does compression, but come ON....there's no way it can back up 145 Gigs 
> of data in 4 Gigs).

I've run into issues with Unison as well when attempting to backup/sync
more than 4GB as well (the individual files are smaller).  I would be
very curious to know if there was a solution for this.

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> 
> Thanks for any suggestions you can give.
> 

Regards,
Steve
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