On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:56:32AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: > rir wrote: > >My question is what should I be backing up regarding udev? > >You imply that, on a running system, /dev/.static/dev should be backed > >up as /dev.
> I can't add anything to the discussion re. /dev, but am curious about > your reference to "a working 5-1/4 drive or a 60meg 1/4 inch tape drive,". > > Since most hard disks are now less than 5-1/4 inches, are you referring > to floppy disks? And that tape size is ancient, I think. You are right. I have had rare occasion to look for stuff that is on 10 and 15 year old backups from my home systems. > If you have access to either a CD or DVD burner, you might want to look > into cdbackup/cdrestore (package name is cdbackup, IIRC). From the man I do use CD- and DVD-RWs for backups these days. So far, I have most of my partitions at under 3.5 gigs and so don't have to chunk things to fit on DVDs. Well, I do have /pub and /priv filesystems that are large, but these are pretty static and mostly replaceable. I suspect I'll move to blue-ray discs within a few years before I feel a need for a chunker like cdbackup, but I'm am glad to have the reference. My comment about 60-meg QIC tapes was forward looking; I imagine that in 15 years I'll have the same problems with CDs. Be well, rir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
