JonesMB wrote: > 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.
I've been using taper for a long time to do a nightly backup of 1 gb of data to a spare hard drive. It works great. You can set it up to do the backups fully automatically and mail you the results, and it can do incrementals. -- see shy jo
