On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 16:01 +0000, Mark Miksis wrote: > > this is why I turn off compression on the backups of localhost. if you look > > at the tree of files, they're still not quite a live copy; but close enough > > to be usable if you only needed a few of them. > > Thanks for the feedback. I've thought of this, but I'd like to avoid turning > off compression, especially if the alternative is as simple as keeping an > extra > copy of 2 or 3 small config files.
I think your bigger worry should be that whatever might break the rest of the machine will also fry or erase the backuppc drive. My approach is to periodically raid-mirror my archive disk to an external firewire drive and I have a laptop with backuppc already installed so I can connect the external drive and be ready to restore. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
