As mentioned on my previous post, I’ve started using NSS Backup as my primary backup solution for my mobile workstation which runs Ubuntu Linux. I gotta say, it’s running pretty well, although recently I’ve had issues with Ubuntu recognising the mountable external hard disc I’ve been using as a back-up drive – save that story for another time – but yeah, it’s running pretty well. As mentioned I had asked the question. One of the development team members answered the question and requested that I open a ticket.
Shortly after that, chanages were made and the developer in charge was nice enough to leave us with an update:
I’ve change the default behaviour from creating the ‘last’ directory to creating NO directory. By default the backup is aborted now if destination directory does not exist. This prevents accidents like described here http://blog.rvdavid.net/30-gb-root-partition-full-how/ and serves the request for an option to enable such behaviour.
Changed in nssbackup: assignee: nobody ? peer.loz status: Confirmed ? Fix Committed
So I guess that’s that for an update. Since this little hick up has been fixed, I’ve had nothing but a stable backup solution.
I highly recommend that you do this. So-that-when-you-accidentally-hose-your-system-down-playing-with-gparted-to-resize-your-partitions-then-deciding-it-was-too_long-and-cancelling-halfway-through-”analysis”-thinking-it’s-”ok”-because-it-was-just-”analysing”-but-then-when-you-reboot-the-computer-it-tells-you-that-you-have-a-corrupt-mbr-or-something-so-you-scour-the-internet-for-a-solution-and-paste-a-command-which-wipes-out-your-nodes-because-you-forgot-to-put -n or -r-after-the-command (*whistles innocently*)… You can… recover! 
Again, I highly recommend it. Not So Simple Backup solution for linux… A very stable alternative to the now super seded sbackup. NSSBackup a replacement for sbackup on Linux operating systems.
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Know of any good Ubuntu “how-to” for this? Didn’t find it in the v8.04 repositories. Any plans for it getting packaged as a .deb? I’m using sbackup now and have tried BackupPC but am about to give up on it as I just can’t seem to get very far with it.
Hi Skip,
Go to the following URL and follow the instructions there – https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team/+archive/ppa
Good luck with it.
Dont get me wrong, its great that there are people in the community contributing software like this. … but i got to say it has a heeeaaap of bugs in it. think i’m just giong to go with simple tar solution. Pitty
I agree. I hate buggy software – be it proprietary or open source. The development team/person did seem to be quite active last time I contacted them/him, but I don’t know if they’re still active now. Have you tried submitting bug reports etc?