On Sunday 02 March 2003 00:18, robin wrote: > Harv Nelson wrote: > > I downloaded the eval version ... but it made me hunt up a WIN98 machine > > with a CD burner, so I could run the ".exe" download ... just to burn the > > ISO for me! All that, so that I could try out a linux based program to > > back up a linux only machine (not a dual boot system). Seems like the > > long "run-around-end" to get to the goal. > > > > After all that, it wanted to make a compressed copy of my hda1 partition > > on hda6. Which copy, I would then have to burn to CD, manually. This is > > getting a little silly. > > > > Thanks for all the help and suggestions ... but I don't have time to play > > like this. I'm opting for the old machine with big HD to do a network > > backup of all the other disks. I guess the question will then be, how > > long do I have to sleep at night so the backups can complete. > > I think you're right - if you have the hard disk space, HD backups are a > lot easier, and you can set them as cron jobs. The only disadvantage is > if the backup box is in the same building as the other computers, then a > physical disaster (fire, flood, massive power spike, al-Qaeda attack, > Avril Lavigne video) can wipe it out along with the rest. Otherwise > it's pretty reliable. If you've got HD space in spades, you can even > back up the backups. I do this with my backup script that grabs the > contents of "My Documents" on the Windows machines. There's always the > possibility that a user has left the computer in a state where it's > unreachable on the network, so the backup file gets overwritten by a > load of nothing (I supose you could get round that by checking the file > size). > > Sir Robin
Hmmm I myself have always been fairly succesfull in repairing data after a software- or OS crash. The thing I really dread is a whole (big! nowadays) HD going up in smoke. I suppose you could back up on another HD but you don't always know which goes first do you? Prefer the CD backup all the way, that's certain. Good luck, HarM
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