Hi, Backing up to a partition on the same disk provides you no protection against a disk-crash. If the drive fails, you will most likely lose date on *all* partitions. Better to have another drive, be it tape, HDD, zip, or whatever.
--David > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of JonesMB > Sent: Monday, September 21, 1998 3:16 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: backup using hard disk - any ideas > > > > Hello, > > I recently had a hard drive die on me causing me to lose lots of data. I > have rebuilt my system (a K6/233 with Debian on 1GB and Win95 on > 1GB) and I'm > looking at various ways of backing up my data so I don't lose it > all again. > I currently have about 2 GB of drive space that I am not using > and want to > devote to backing up my system. At worst I can just do a cpio or > tar but I > am sure there is a more elegant way to do it. There might even > be a package > which does this. Any ideas are appreciated. > > TIA > jmb > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
