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Ralph Shumaker wrote:
> What are the simplest ways of archiving my data if I am a single user
> new to Linux?

Copy it all to another computer is the simplest way. It is what I do.

I have owned several tape drives, CD-RW, DVD-RW and played with dump,
tar, rsync, taper, home grown scripts, and I have finally decided that
the best way to reliably back up data is just to tar/gz it off to
another hard drive on another computer. Borrow some space on a friends
computer if necessary. Your friend probably needs to backup stuff to
yours also anyway. Anything else is too expensive or too much trouble. I
found the attached script on the net and it seems to work quite well. I
added the gpg encryption (since I am backing up to a site trusted to
keep my data safe but not entirely trusted not to actually read it) and
the ssh pipe to the remote machine.

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Tracy R Reed
http://ultraviolet.org
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