Re: Backup my Debian woody system

From: Oliver Fuchs (oliverfuchs_at_onlinehome.de)
Date: 02/29/04

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    On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote:

    > On 2004-02-26, Oliver Fuchs penned:
    > >
    > > What I want: I want to know if my backup strategy is working this way
    > > or if there is a better solution?
    > >
    > > So ... any help/advice/documentation is appreciated.
    > >
    >
    > It kind of depends on whether you want to spend money on this backup.
    >
    > Me, I bought a large hard drive and a usb drive enclosure. When I want
    > to backup my machines, I plug in the drive and use rsync to back up
    > everything I care about. The nice thing about rsync is that it is smart
    > about only updating files that have changed (or have changed location).
    >

    Hi,

    thank you for answering ... this seems to be a good idea and I will try it. But
    at the moment I want to backup my debian system via NFS and Free-BSD.

    If this one fails I think I have to investigate and do it your way.

    So thanx again

    Oliver 

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