backup

[Fred Roller]

On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 14:13 -0700, John Heinen wrote:
> A large retailer is offering a Seagate 250 mb backup hard drive  at a
> fair price, including various programs for backups etc, for windows only.
>  I know very litle about backups except copying files to a cd/dvd. How
> would I backup Ubuntu and other Linux's to such a drive? John
> 
> 

We would need more detail on what you want to back up.  If it's multiple
systems through a server to the seagate then amanda (or similar) is in
order.  If it's just your own system then just depends on personal
preference.  I simply partition my data apart from the OS and then
backup specific config files.  For me this process gets my rebuilds down
to a little under an hour.

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Fred R.
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"Life is like Linux, simple.  If you are fighting it, you are doing
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