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Backups
Backups
Posted Jul 9, 2006 4:48 UTC (Sun) by thedevil (guest, #32913)In reply to: Backups by addw
Parent article: The 2006 Linux File Systems Workshop
On desktops, I think most people nowadays make a full copy of the file system on another disk (maybe a CD). I use an external USB drive. Together with the wonderful rdiff-backup program which stores unchanged files as links it's quite an economical solution. For a server where you want to backup an expensive terabyte drive, that's quite a different story ...
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Backups
Posted Jul 11, 2006 10:11 UTC (Tue) by alspnost (subscriber, #2763) [Link]
Glad you mentioned rdiff-backup - an excellent tool that I couldn't live without now. I use that to backup crucial parts of my filesystems to an external USB drive. Hopefully it'll still work in 10 years when I have a 16TB array in my machine and a 5TB external drive :-)