Re: [SLE] what do you back-up and how?

On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 16:15 +0100, Daniel Bauer wrote:
Hi everybody

I'd like to know how you manage your backing-up:
- what do you back-up
- and how? (on what media, using what programs, how do you keep track?)

As I am relatively new to Linux up to now I just backup the
data-files I am
actually working with, saving them to another HD or to CD's by
copying (most
of them are compressed photo files, so gz etc. doesn't make much
sense in
that case).

But I have absolutely no backup of settings, system parts or what
ever might
be necessary when e.g. my system-disc crashes. I don't even have an
idea
_what_ would be of use to back-up, how and what to keep up-to-date,
and: how
to re-use it in the bad case...

Maybe this is interesting not only to me, but If you consider it
just another
silly newbie question already asked more than you can stand, I am
sorry, but
then would very much appreciate to be directed to suitable links
anyway...

The only silly/stupid question is the one that is not asked.

Look into using mondoarchive. It is included on the distribution CD/DVD
and works with many media types, CD, DVD, tape, disk...


http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/6808/print

That looks very interesting.

One question. How would you propose a restore test? Having been through
this in real life, I always told my clients that the only valid backup
is one that has been verified and tested on an actual system.

Could one "restore" to a blank VMWare session, do you think?

--
kai

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