The recent thread on backups put a guilt trip on me, and I figure I ought to start backing up my home system. However I haven't found a backup system I like. My modest requirements are these: (at least, I think they're modest)
- Use CD-RW
- Ideally they should be mountable, i.e. no huge tarballs split across
CDs
- Ideally they should be bootable, with needed recovery tools
- Definitely fault-tolerable (lose one CD, all you lost was the data
on it)
- Be able to specify which files to include and/or exclude
- Simple to use
- CD waste is bad, but human time waste during periodic backups is
worse. Periodic when-I-want-to reclamation is ok.
I've found some stuff that does some of this, but nothing that does it
all. What do you all use?
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There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the
right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach
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