Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

[David]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 06:36:34PM +0000, Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> 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...


I use rsync, and i'm surprised more people haven't mentioned this tool. 
Really easy, can be done by cron. Is there some reason NOT to use it?

As to back up... I keep two copies of important stuff on different 
machines in my office, and another copy on CD at work. Makes for peace of 
mind. Not just fire and flood, there is also burglary and malicious damage 
to worry about.

It's not that hard to burn a few CDs every now and then. That reminds me.. 
.better go and do it now!