I was asked to look into sbackup (from the Google summer of code 2005) as a
backup tool.  I have installed it on ubuntu 6.10 from the default
repositories.  The intent was related to individual users in the various
computer clubs.  Some of these folks have single computers while others have
small networks of systems.

On first look, I thought it not appropriate for most individuals since it
could not write to CD/DVD yet and other means were mostly network based.  In
addition, the backup are owned by and only accessible to root (see bottom of
message).  Even though this is proper considering the default inclusions for
the backup, it might be a hardship and/or confusion for a typical user.

I raise 2 questions:
1 - Does anyone have experience(s) or opinions with sbackup they can share?
2 - How could one best write these root owned files to a CD (Note:
multisession would be ideal so the incremental backups can just be added as
they occur)?

FYI, this is a listing showing the directories and files resulting from 2
backups (notice the second seems to indicate being incremental):

root@lapdog1:~# ls -alF /var/backup
total 16
drwx------  4 root root 4096 2006-11-20 16:33 ./
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 2006-11-14 21:27 ../
drwx------  2 root root 4096 2006-11-14 21:28
2006-11-14_21.27.23.273683.lapdog1.ful/
drwx------  2 root root 4096 2006-11-20 16:34
2006-11-20_16.33.31.784390.lapdog1.inc/
root@lapdog1:~# ls -alF /var/backup/2006-11-14_21.27.23.273683.lapdog1.ful/
total 32300
drwx------ 2 root root     4096 2006-11-14 21:28 ./
drwx------ 4 root root     4096 2006-11-20 16:33 ../
-rw------- 1 root root      218 2006-11-14 21:27 excludes
-rw------- 1 root root 32152144 2006-11-14 21:28 files.tgz
-rw------- 1 root root   539775 2006-11-14 21:27 flist
-rw------- 1 root root   279222 2006-11-14 21:27 fprops
-rw------- 1 root root    36344 2006-11-14 21:28 packages
-rw------- 1 root root        4 2006-11-14 21:28 ver
root@lapdog1:~# ls -alF /var/backup/2006-11-20_16.33.31.784390.lapdog1.inc/
total 4656
drwx------ 2 root root    4096 2006-11-20 16:34 ./
drwx------ 4 root root    4096 2006-11-20 16:33 ../
-rw------- 1 root root      39 2006-11-20 16:34 base
-rw------- 1 root root     218 2006-11-20 16:33 excludes
-rw------- 1 root root 4613109 2006-11-20 16:34 files.tgz
-rw------- 1 root root   46465 2006-11-20 16:34 flist
-rw------- 1 root root   29318 2006-11-20 16:34 fprops
-rw------- 1 root root   36344 2006-11-20 16:34 packages
-rw------- 1 root root       4 2006-11-20 16:33 ver


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