If you don’t already have a backup plan working for your Ubuntu system, your’re nuts. Few things are as easy as a full system or incremental backup in any Linux system, but when using SBackup to do your dirty work it really is as simple as install, config and forget about it.
SBackup is a cross platform backup utility developed for the Google Summer of Code 2005. We are running Ubuntu on our office server so this tutorial uses Ubuntu screenshots and terminal commands.
First things first, get SBackup. In a terminal window
sudo apt-get install sbackup
That’s it. SBackup is installed. Told you this would be cake.
Now choose System > Administrator > Simple Backup Config and the SBackup GUI pops up.
SBackup has several options you can configure including what, where and when to backup. If you don’t want to think too much about it, accept the recommended settings. If you choose recommended settings, your media files will not be backed up. This is probably mission critical to most users so select Exclude > File Types in the GUI and remove MP3’s and other media files from the list.
The most powerful part of SBackup is the ability to set a backup schedule including hourly, daily or other specific backup times. All backups run in the background so you won’t even know the system is backing up.
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