Kam Salisbury on 13 Jun 2005 02:34:46 -0000


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RE: [PLUG] single-user backup suggestions


I have a lot of success with flexbackup and cdbkup. I have used multicd with some success as well.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/flexbackup/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdbkup/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/multicd/

I am archiving over 24GB of data with these utilities.

Kam Salisbury
http://salisburyfamily.us


-----Original Message-----
   >From: "Chris Duryee"<duryee@gmail.com>
   >Sent: 6/12/05 3:19:54 PM
   >To: "plug@lists.phillylinux.org"<plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
   >Subject: [PLUG] single-user backup suggestions
     >I'm trying to figure out a way to do backups of my hard drive (a PC
   >that's only used by myself, running Gentoo) to files which will be
   >burned to DVD media. Any suggestions and/or experiences would be
   >helpful.
   >
   >My main goal is to have files created overnight in a directory for me to
   >burn at my leisure. 
   >
   >Right now I'm debating between dump and tar. Any suggestions? Most
   >information that I find online is for server backups, not for
   >single-user machine backups.
   >
   >I have ~2.5GB of critical files that must be backed up every few nights
   >(system and home directory stuff), and ~45GB of media stuff that only
   >needs to be backed up incrementally every month, to add new files. My
   >system is pretty quiet at night, except for running emerge scripts that
   >download things for compilation later in the day (after I can check its
   >pretended output for sanity).
   >
   >-- 
   >Chris Duryee <duryee@gmail.com> PGP: A9016BD6
   >

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