I have a spare 1 GB disk at work which I could use to backup my /home partition (which consists of 1 GB amidst a 4.3 GB disk).
(If I decide I can tolerate the 1GB-disk's whining; it's surprising how annoying the sound of the old disk is compared to my new Seagate Barracuda.) I'm accustomed to using tar. I thought I'd learn about incremental tar archives and: o erase the disk every Friday evening and make a new tar file on the disk. o create an incremental tar file from Monday to Thursday evenings. Is this wise? Or should I use dump/restore which I know nothing about? Part of the protection I want is from myself: If I accidentally delete a file on Monday and it takes me until Thursday to realise that, I'd like the file to still exist on the backup. Perhaps incremental tar deletes a newly deleted file from the tar file to keep in sync with the disk, thus defeating part of my purpose? I'd appreciate any suggestions! -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada 418-775-0852 - FAX 418-775-0546 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .