Re: Backups

houghi wrote:
Barnacle Bill the Sailor wrote:
Broderick Crawford wrote:
What are the essential files to backup to get Suse booted up and a
window manager running like KDE when you have a problem? Is there a
program that does this?

And while we're at it, what's a reasonable priced tape drive whose tapes
hold in the gigabyte range and would work with Linux? or would one be
better off hooking up an external hard drive for backup purposes

I asume you man files, exept your own datafiles. I backup these:
includeDirs=bin boot etc home lib opt root sbin srv usr var

Then there are some that I exclude:
home/*/.*cache*
home/*/.*/cache*
home/*/.*/*/cache*
home/*/.*/*/*/cache*
home/*/*/*/*/cache*
home/*/.*/*/*/Cache*
home/*/*/*/*/Cache*
devmedia
mnt/*
/
proc
tmp
var/spool/news
home/houghi/.pan
home/houghi/tmp
home/houghi/.kde
home/houghi/.nautilus
home/houghi/dvd
home/houghi/.opera

So basicaly I backup almost everything. In order of importace and what I
have done in the past is the following:
/etc
/home
/root
/usr/local
/var/spool/mail
/var/spool/cron

I now use storeBackup http://en.opensuse.org/StoreBackup

As for tapedrives, I would just use an internal HD. Yes, there is an
offchance that your PC blows up and that a external drive would have
saved your data. But is more marketing then something you actualy need.

Unless you are going (not just intend to) take the HD to another
premise, there won't be a serious advantage, exept for the higher price.

And then you must understand that transportation the date means you need
to encrypt your data and actualy need TWO external drives. One for each
day. That way when one breaks during transport while you rush to place
back the backup, you still have the other.

If your data is that precious, as dedicated backupserver should be a
better option. If it is just standard backup, use an internal drive.

houghi


Well, I certainly haven't the combinations to Fort Knox's vaults, I just
need more backup solution than I presently have. I had used tape drives
in the past when a vast data store was on the order of 10 megabytes. But
as data expands to fill the available space, some sort of reverse
entropy thing I guess, tape drive technology disproportionately fails to
keep up. An extra hard drive does seem the cheapest idea. I would still
get an external for in my case my poor little power supply doesn't need
the extra load.
.

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