On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:19:26 -0400, Damon Register wrote:
How many home users even know how to do daily backups? How many have the technology? Of course my coworkers might argue I am not the normal user but I have daily backup of my wife's computer. One of our admins here showed me how to do it with rsync and it was very easy. Thanks for reminding me
Jim Henderson wrote: that I was supposed to help my father set that up on his computer.
Which is great until that backup fails. I don't know how much data you've got, but if I ran two backups of all the computers in my house, I'd probably need a couple of TB drives. I archive my DVDs and CDs and that takes a *lot* of space.
I've got 4 dead DLT drives in the basement. I just suffered the near total loss of the drive that was holding my backups (the drive isn't even recognised by the system any more). for me that isn't a problem because I have two identical backup drives and use rsync for those too. The nightly order is backup1 > backup2 then wife's pc > backup1
It's good you can afford the time and the hardware to do this. Many home users can't. Do you really think people who are buying OLPC PCs are going to have the resources available to buy another hard drive or two for backup purposes?
small segment of the desktops out there. As the desktop market grows, the need will likely grow as well. That makes me wonder if Linux ever really catches on in the desktop market, would the virus issue become as serious as it is for Windows? I have heard plenty of arguments that Linux is much safer but I often wonder if it is safer only because it isn't mainstream enough to interest the virus writers.
It's hard to say, but it seems to me it makes sense to prepare for that possibility - far less sense to have people go "oh crap, it *is* susceptible after all" once the desktop becomes popular enough to be a target. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org