3.1 Purpose of KBACKUP

KBACKUP is intended for handling of backups no matter whether they reside on disk or tape or even in files. As most other backup programs available today are either confusing the user with lots of long command line options or user friendly but not powerful at all, the aim behind writing KBACKUP was to provide a user friendly yet powerful backup program. Further on I wanted to keep it compatible to existing and well proven archive formats so you can restore your archives even if you should not have KBACKUP around anymore.

To achieve this goal, KBACKUP uses established and well proven archive tools like tar(1) or afio(1) to do the archive handling and improves their functionality by adding quite a lot of additional features. By using the dialog(1) program I could make archive handling as easy and user friendly as possible. This means that you will get the power and reliability of the best archive handlers combined with a customisable and easy to use interface.