Project Reviews for Simple Backup Solution

Peter Dzwig reviewed sbackup: Thumbs up

Peter Dzwig — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:41:00 -0000

Thumbs up: It's very good. I have been running it for about months and I have few qualms about it. But: (i) it needs to be able to really "Backup Now" when that is what you ask it to do, rather than going off and starting up a background job that gets executed when it feels like it. It is sometimes imperative to run "NOW". It shouldn't be too difficult to make that an option; (ii) It needs to present an icon to notify when it is active. This is fairly common for other systems and really helps the user know what is happening. (iii) It ought to be possible to provide access to a log that shows the backups performed ( a simple text file is all that is necessary) without having to go off and examine your filestore. Otherwise it is a great backup system if you don't have really complex needs. Recommended.

anonymous reviewed sbackup: Thumbs up

anonymous — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:55:49 -0000

Thumbs up: Works well, is automated, efficent in disk space storage

Adam Windisch reviewed sbackup: Thumbs up

Adam Windisch — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:50:02 -0000

Thumbs up: Already had to restore a file from a few weeks back, and it worked perfectly. Nice backup tool.

anonymous reviewed sbackup: Thumbs down

anonymous — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:46:19 -0000

Thumbs down: As long as sbackup cannot split its archive to multiple <4GB files it is not recommended for the daily backup. Sbackup does not notify if a backup failed because the archive would be to large or the backup disk is full.

anonymous reviewed sbackup: Thumbs up

anonymous — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:51:28 -0000

Thumbs up: I have been using this for several months and it works flawlessly. It saved all my files when my old computer died. it continues to protect my stuff and it is really so simple to use that it is a no brainer to backup. If I could change or add anything I would like to see more verbosity It would be good to know what it was backup up

anonymous reviewed sbackup: Thumbs up

anonymous — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:37:28 -0000

Thumbs up: A must have for any gnome user

anonymous reviewed sbackup: Thumbs up

anonymous — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:25:05 -0000

Thumbs up: It's not perfect and I'm not sure is anyone developing it, but it works and there are not too many competitors around.