Alternative Backup Software
Commercial and other freeware backup products do exist; BRU and Veritas are good examples of effective commercial backup products. Here are some useful free software backup tools that are not installed with Ubuntu:
• flexbackup—This backup tool is a large file of Perl scripts that makes dump and restore easier to use. flexbackup’s command syntax can be found by using the command with the -help argument. It also can use afio, cpio, and tar to create and restore archives locally or over a network using rsh or ssh if security is a concern. Its home page is www.edwinh.org/flexbackup/. Note that it has not received any updates or changes in a very long time.
• afio—This tool creates cpio formatted archives but handles input ...
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