We see many recommendations to do a backup before getting into
potential trouble. Easy recommendation to make and the wisdom
of doing a regular or specific backup is obvious.
It'd be interesting to see the different ways a backup is made.
I searched the net and a tape backup seems to be the weapon of
choice when large amounts of data are involved. My brief
experience with a small 2 GB taper turned me off from this
direction.
So, you folks that recommend a backup, how do you do it?
Is there a special backup program that you run, do you backup
to floppy(ies), burn a CD, use a special partition on the HD,
just back up to a directory in the same OS, memorize the
data, print it out, or what? Do you just make copies of
directories or do you process them in some way first?
Windows has a 'backup' utility---is something similar available
for Linux, Mandrake in particular?
What's the story on backuping?
