> -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 15 December 2005 19:16 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Backups > > > On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:53:27 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > > > My personal favorite for my desktop and laptop is using > 'dar' with big > > USB hard drives....but that's what works well for me. > > I use rdiff-backup, which is ideal for backing up automatically to a > hard drive. I run it from cron, hourly on critical > directories, daily on > the rest. I then have a weekly cron script that compresses the backup > directories with squashfs and writes them to ISO images ready > for writing > to bootable DVDs. It makes restoring individual files very easy, and a > completely hosed system can be fixed because the DVDs are bootable.
If you get a minute, a detailed wiki howto would be useful for some of us. :-) -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
