Are you looking to do file backups that in effect replace the old tape
drives of yore?  Or are you trying to do hard disk images for forensic
investigation, lost data recovery, or to image full discs that have some
non-os information that needs to be cloned, in which case dd is the way
to go, or are you trying to do soft disk images for system back up and
cloning like what Ghost does?  

If it is the first, R-Synch (or derivatives their of) is the best I have
found.
If the second then I use dd, it is not the best, but when you look at
price per performance then it makes it very close, if not the best
option out their.
If you are trying for the third, then I to would love to know.  I have
not found anything that is clean and easy to use.  I used Ghost in the
past but stopped some time ago in favor of disk image XL, but not for
any great reason.

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
Robert Holtzman
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:59 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: backup apps

I'm looking for backup software that doesn't back up the empty space on 
the drive. Also, I would like it to be able to make incremental backups.
Dump (dd) seems to back up everything, empty or not. Not what I'm
looking 
for. I looked at tar but am unsure about the incremental use. I've tried

Clonezilla but it's giving me problems which the guys on the 
Clonezilla-users list are trying to work out. Can anyone suggest
anything
else?

This is for use on a single desktop box with an external HD for backup. 
CLI is preferred but GUI is O.K.

Thanks.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
"If you think you're getting free lunch,
  check the price of the beer"
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