On Sunday 10 August 2003 04:31, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > It depends on the amount of data you have. Hard drives and tapes can > backup a lot of data. However, for a home user you probably aren't backing > up that much. For ease of ue take a look at using a CDR or CDRW. If you > have more than fits on one CD then split you backups up to use more CDs. > You can also backup to another system's hard drive if you have space (which > yoiu indicate you don't) but sooner or later that should be backed up to > another media.
Yes, I figured that CDR and CDRW would be best. But there is difference also. CDRWs are more expensive and some CD readers read them not so reliably as CDRs. CDRs on the other hand are cheap, and are read more reliably but you can through them away after the next backup. So I still don't know what is better. I suppose it depends on the backup frequency. The are not so many files that get changed every day or even every week, most files are just there like some nice pictures or old documents. My home directory is 2.1G so I will need at least 4 CDRs for that. Also /etc is also worth backing up as well as some files from /var/cache/edb. What else would you suggest for a backup? Regards, Renat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
