Re: Oh, how Mandrake 10 made me laugh!

From: Walter Mautner (mynews.20.eatallspam_at_spamgourmet.com)
Date: 09/27/04

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    Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 07:26:16 +0200

    Mig21 wrote:

    > Walter Mautner wrote:
    .....
    >> Backups on the same physical media as you are use for working/messing
    >> around, are in fact no backups at all. You have to store them elsewhere
    >> and keep them "offline" until it's time to restore.
    > sorry me off-topic
    >
    > can you recommend a way to do backups? i have another computer i can
    > dedicate to backups alone but a simple cp+cron sonds kinda stupid
    > compared to all i could do
    >
    > do you know of a website maybe that discusses the (dis)advantages of
    > various techniques?
    >
    Have a bookmark of http://madpenguin.org/Article1505.html which gives hints
    about performing backups on remote servers (which is what you want).
    Now I got some old ready-for-junk DDS2 drive, repaired/cleaned it and use it
    on the same box. Or simply use cds/cdrw. 

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