On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 16:15 +0100, Daniel Bauer wrote:
Hi everybody
I'd like to know how you manage your backing-up: - what do you back-up - and how? (on what media, using what programs, how do you keep track?)
As I am relatively new to Linux up to now I just backup the data-files I am actually working with, saving them to another HD or to CD's by copying (most of them are compressed photo files, so gz etc. doesn't make much sense in that case).
But I have absolutely no backup of settings, system parts or what ever might be necessary when e.g. my system-disc crashes. I don't even have an idea _what_ would be of use to back-up, how and what to keep up-to-date, and: how to re-use it in the bad case...
Maybe this is interesting not only to me, but If you consider it just another silly newbie question already asked more than you can stand, I am sorry, but then would very much appreciate to be directed to suitable links anyway...
The only silly/stupid question is the one that is not asked. Look into using mondoarchive. It is included on the distribution CD/DVD and works with many media types, CD, DVD, tape, disk... If you want to by a commercial product look at BackUpEdge from Microlite. There is a 60 day demo available and it does have very good disaster recovery. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998