Re: [opensuse] Suggestions for backup software?



On Monday 31 March 2008 11:28, Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 10:36 +0200, jdd sur free wrote:
G T Smith a écrit :
In many situations a solution that allows for recovery of a file
that got deleted in error (or corrupted

best solution I see is

* backup on an external HDD (I have bough an usb<>IDE device just
for that)
* burn dvd's

CD's or DVD's are not suited well for long term storage
Wasn't that tested some years ago on TOM's H.G. ???
Much decay after five years afair.

It seems useful to distinguish backup, which is a prophylaxis against
unexpected data loss, and archiving, which is for preserving a
historical record of your files. One often need not archive nearly as
much data as one would want to be able to recover after a hardware,
software or human error.


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Randall Schulz
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