I backup my important files several ways.
one way for smaller but very important files is online backup i have a
friend who owns a pretty big ecommerce company and he gave me a FTP account
on a nice system so i have about 200 megs of highly important files there.
for home use i send some important files to my server wich has 2 9.1 gig
drives that are mirrored. if i want something that is portable i like zip
drives for smaller files or burn them to cd for up to 700 megs.
there are alot of wasy to backup. its totaly up to you wich way you want to
do it
the best way is on a scsi tape drive but a fast tape drive that holds alot
and that is very fast will empty your pockets and you piggy bank.
(i would say trial and error but i guess this isnt a good thing for backing
up important things :)
Luc
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Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 1:22 PM
Subject: [newbie] Backup????
> We see many recommendations to do a backup before getting into
> potential trouble. Easy recommendation to make and the wisdom
> of doing a regular or specific backup is obvious.
>
> It'd be interesting to see the different ways a backup is made.
>
> I searched the net and a tape backup seems to be the weapon of
> choice when large amounts of data are involved. My brief
> experience with a small 2 GB taper turned me off from this
> direction.
>
> So, you folks that recommend a backup, how do you do it?
>
> Is there a special backup program that you run, do you backup
> to floppy(ies), burn a CD, use a special partition on the HD,
> just back up to a directory in the same OS, memorize the
> data, print it out, or what? Do you just make copies of
> directories or do you process them in some way first?
>
> Windows has a 'backup' utility---is something similar available
> for Linux, Mandrake in particular?
>
> What's the story on backuping?
>
>
