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HUBackup is short for Home User Backup System. As the name implies, this is a very simple, concise and easy to use backup application that uses the renowned and proven dar (Disk ARchive) to do the actual archiving. Emphasis has been on providing true and reliable progress indication throughout all operations, as well as the ability to cancel any operation at any given point. HUBackup mainly concerns with backing up your home folder data, allowing you to restore it in case of data loss.

Install hubackup in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install hubackup

This will complete the hubackup installation.

Backup Files

If you want to open hubackup goto System—>Administration—>Home User Backup

Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen

You need to select the Save Backup To Option

Once you selected the Save Backup To Option complete screen looks like below and click on backup

Backup is in progress

After completing the backup you can see two file as below

Restore Files

Restoring files from System—>Administration—>Home User Restore is not working for me i.e it is crashing for me in ubuntu gutsy so we need to use command line restore.

Home user backup application hubackup using the underlying archiver , DAR.

Usually after a typical run of hubackup you will have two resulting files

/home/backup/ruchi-master-archive.1.dar
/home/backup/ruchi-master-catalog.1.dar

To restore , which actually usually means extract in DAR’s language you need to do something like:

dar -x /home/backup/ruchi-master-archive -R TARGET_DIR

If there is more then one slice DAR knows how to switch between them properly.

For more options check DAR man page

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