Yay Mary,
Was the last time that a backup talk was given my one in 1997?
I see the basic principles are the same, but disc technology has
moved on: I didn't even consider backing up to an external hard drive
ten years ago, because a 4G DAT was cheaper than a 4G hard drive; and
discs were around 2G in general. We now have main memory bigger than
that! (In 1997 I ran Linux 0.98 on a 50MHz 486 with 1G disc and 1M memory)
I'm now using rsnapshot; really important data gets burned to CD and
stored off-site. Really important means the best of the photos, audio
recordings, etc., and stuff there's legal requirements on (7 years for
data for the tax return, etc). There's a lot less really important
stuff than there is stuff on the disc.
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