Backups

[uriah heep]

On 8/6/07, Maynard Wright <m-wright at eskimo.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday 06 August 2007 09:25, Greg Booth wrote:
> > On 8/6/07, Neil Winchurst <neil at holsdev.vispa.com> wrote:
> > > Anyone any recommendations for backing up my important files please.
> > > At the moment I use DVDs but there must be better ways. Or perhaps
> not??
> > >
> > > Neil Winchurst
> >
> > Talking whole directories or just individual files ? There's free
> > online backup sites available that give you usually about 2 gig to
> > store stuff, but I'm not sure I'd want to back up my whole ~ directory
> > over the wire, take forever and I just don't want my personal stuff
> > going across the internet.
> >
> > Greg
>
> My stuff is mostly source code, low-rez diagrams, documents, letters,
> memos,
> email, etc. so I use USB flash drives.  That seems to work really well for
> my
> situation.  A 2Gbyte drive holds everything with space left over.
>
> Maynard
>
>
> I have a couple of old ide hard drives that I swap out of an external
> usb/1394 drive housing.  Just do image then incrementals.  Use this method
> on both Kubuntu and win XP. The external is only connected during the actual
> backup so I keep everything even if a lightning strike etc screws my system


uriah
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