Dear UUG, I recently typed rm in a place where I wished I hadn't, and I started thinking about how I have no backups at home. I've since done some reading on that crazy internet thing about different strategies and automated scripts that are available for backing stuff up, and I've also read Mike's repeated recommendations to raid, and none of it sounds really good to me. RAID won't save me from typing rm in the wrong place. CD-Rs and DVD-Rs are too small for my 60 or so GBs of data. I have two hard drives now, but I don't want to go so far as to build a whole seperate backup server. I've read about dirvish, backuppc, rsnapshot, and mondo, and they all sound like a lot of work and probably overkill for my needs, though I'm leaning towards mondo. I'm tempted to just forget about it, type rm more carefully, pray that no sun spots fry my hardware, and back-up a few important things to CDs every now and then.
What does the all-knowing UUG use for simple, easy home backups? Bryan -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
