Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1695 mails)

[Adam Jimerson <vendion@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 06 July 2009 05:14:29 pm John Heinen wrote:
> A large retailer is offering a Seagate 250 mb backup hard drive  at a
> fair price, including various programs for backups etc, for windows only.
>  I know very litle about backups except copying files to a cd/dvd. How
> would I backup Ubuntu and other Linux's to such a drive? John

http://linux.about.com/od/softbackup/Linux_Software_Backup_Solutions.htm

Out of the ones listed on that article I would look at AMANDA or Bacula.  As 
for the hard drive you may want to make sure you are truly getting a deal, 
earlier today NewEgg had a 500 GB external HDD (this one to be exact 
http://tinyurl.com/mntgbp) for $65 USD normal price is $79.99, note that is 
with Free Shipping is most US states.

Hope this email helps, and if you don't find a backup solution that fits your 
needs you can always make one yourself, create and archive with files and 
directories you need and copy them to the drive or if you have enough space 
even use something like dd to copy the filesystem.
-- 
"We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason 
than only freedom can make security more secure."  Karl Popper