I found two more applications for backup. One is called Simple Backup and it
is simple as the name suggests. The other is complex and meant for network
backups, called Bacula. Both in the repositories. There is also Lucky
Backup, but it sounds like you are lucky if it works for you. :)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sbackup/
http://www.bacula.org/en/

Both are covered in the Going Linux Podcast #106:
http://goinglinux.com/mp3podcast.xml

I know that you are having sound problems, you can download it as mp3 and
listen to it externally. It covers GUI applications that can do what
commandline people want to do.