Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Came home at 3am this morning to find my main desktop machine locked > up solid... Rebooted and all of a sudden heard the dreaded clicking > of the hard drive (a 6month old WDC 80GB). I was wanting to > reinstall Gentoo on my main desktop anyways, but this wasn't quite > what I had in mind... > > Anyways, I threw a spare hard drive in (identical to the one that > died), and am in the process of reinstalling Gentoo (on the 3rd > different machine this week ) > > Once I get everything back up and running, I want to start making it a > habit to back things up on a regular basis. I was wondering what > others on this list did for their backups. > > I was considering the following: > - a seperate machine to handle all backup's of the various machines > on my home LAN > - buy another 80G and a RAID card and run it in RAID 1
Backing up to a separate machine is the best strategy. This is what I do. -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer Bugs go to http://bugs.gentoo.org!
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