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[Norman Silverstone]

> Some basic rules of any backup software:
> 1. Restore is more important than backup. If the backed up data
>   is garbage you are really in trouble.
> 2. Because of #1 it is okay for backup software to fail in a noisy
>    manner. ie. your backup failed because your cd was bad, disk
>    full, ... but it should never fail silently.
> 3. Redundancy and checksums are key to making sure the backup
>    is good.  Checking should be done during backup, and can be
>    overriden during restore.

One of the very few things I have missed since changing from Windows to
Ubuntu is a piece of software called BackUpMyPC. I was able to backup my
system and data separately to CD and I would welcome such a facility
even if I had to pay for it.

Norman