Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:56:58 -0500, paul cooke
<ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> fer ,,, sake, get hold of a cd writer at the very least and save it OFF
> the machine for safety... or else get hold of another machine to copy to
> every so often... or a large external hard drive... anything, but DON'T
> leave it purely on your hard disk... make multiple copies of important
> data on other media...

I second that. Have had it happen to me a couple of times. At the
moment, I have a second, 120GB SATA disk in my Warty system. All
computers in the house (the Warty computer, a Windows 2000 laptop and
a Windows XP pc) periodically run rsync to backup to that drive. At
least then I have two copies of everything. I'm still hosed if my
house burns down, of course, but I'll have other worries then...