I have just inserted my new old 500mi drive, to hold my /home partition.
Now, should I use ext2 or dos filesystem? If I use ext2, what is the
correct format for fstab? If I just mount it to /home what will happen to
the stuff in my /home partition now?
I see a reformat looming.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 7:07 PM
Subject: [newbie] Rotating backups
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Austin L. Denyer wrote:
>
> >> >Hitachi are selling 72Gb drives on buy.com for $146, and I've seen
> >80Gb
> >>
> >> A removable disk pack. Slap another one of those in there, mirror the
> >> disk... ready :)
> >
> >OK, now start rotating your backups so that you have something to fall
> >back on, and watch your costs rocket.
> >
> >Why rotate backups? Allow me to tell you a short true story.
>
> I understand, because I rotate my backups also. I can get all my stuff on
> a TR4 tape though, so I don't have the need to back up 50+ gigs of disk.
> I know how much trouble that can be. I have done Novell, Win NT
> (sorry) and Unix networks too.
>
> Paul
>
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