Hi :) Cd & Dvd do seem to suffer unless kept in a very carefully controlled environment. A couple of years ago someone in DistroWatch was detailing how their company stored their back-up discs. My neighbour managed to fix one of his dvds by taking a sanding machine to it! Not something i would recommend but he was using a very fine grain.
Backing-up seems to be easier in Gnu&Linux. Simple commands such as Rsync or (GRsync if you want the Gnome gui front-end for it) keep all file permissions intact and notice which files are newer at which end and can back-up over a network easily. I'm not sure Rsync would help with encryption. FIle transfers tend to be faster with Gnu&Linux and can be used to back-up Windows files. The fastest seems to be to boot into a Gnu&Linux installed on 1 physical hard-drive and use it to back-up the data from the other drive over the network. With SSDs it doesn't make much difference but with Sata/Ide-drives it can help to reduce the amount of movement the read/write heads need. Hence why it is good to have Swap/Virtual Memory on a different physical drive. In Gnu&Linux you can have the users data&settings all neatly on one drive while the Operating System is on another. Dividing things up more than that is just confusing tho! Err, are we going off-topic? Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Johnny Rosenberg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 26 August, 2011 11:11:34 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Basic question for new LibreOffice user... 2011/8/25 Twayne <[email protected]>: > In news:CADo7T4ehM-8YwizE5SDCP=C=53C22FBksN=f3rags6z3n6j...@mail.gmail.com, > Johnny Rosenberg <[email protected]> typed: >> 2011/8/25 webmaster for Kracked Press Productions >> <[email protected]>: >>> >>> Found 3.3.3 solved most of my issues that 3.3.2 had. >>> >>> The rule is if you back up everything, then you will >>> crash when you update the most needed files just before >>> your next schedules back up procedure. >>> >>> My problem is backing up a 1TB and a 2TB internal drive >>> and a 1TB external drive. B The unlimited backup >>> services do not have Linux applications, just Windows >>> and Mac. B I run Ubuntu, and its standard backup service >>> would cost too much. B Also my upload speed for my Cable >>> modem service would take over a month to upload all my >>> data - about double the max. dial-up upload speed but >>> 10MB+ download speed. B So any online backup service is >>> out for my needs. >> >> But you can always backup to external drives, right? You >> just need to >> buy a couple of really big onesb& >> > > Backups are indeed important in that you can re-create your whole computer > drive in a half hour or so depending, instead of two days plus or renstallng > and resetting all the customzations. Wth a good backup, it's a couple > keyclicks & wait a half hour or so per disk. > > OR, back up to DVDs every few months or whenever you've make more changes > that you could not re-create manually and they're important to you. Normally > I back up to DVD (DL, actually) every month and if there are new, important > files, back whenever you've created those. Then another person and I trade > backups every couple months just to have something off-site. The DVDs only > come in handy a couple times, but saved a LOT of grief and work. I backup C > by itself, then the data drves by themselves. > At the same time I do any recovery, I first remove any encryption, > restore, and then re-encrypt and re-export the keys to go with it. > > HTH, > > Twayne` Personally I don't use CD/DVD because every time I need them to recover something, some of the information on them is corrupted anyway. Maybe it's just me or maybe I don't buy media that is expensive enough, but that's my experience anyway. But that's me. Everything is better than not doing any backups at all. Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
