On 02 Nov 1999, John Miskinis wrote: > Hi, > > I do not understand everything in the MSPLIT description, but > I am certainly willing to play around with it. I'm surprised at > the few responses I got about my question. I assumed lots of people > would be using ZIP disks for a backups/restores. > > This leads me to ask if most people just backup their important > files on linux, and if they lose their system, they reinstall from > scratch, then restore just their important (user modified) files? > > This is how I always worked on Windows 95. If I had a builtin > CDROM, and linux was easier to install I might opt for this, but > on my Thinkpad 560, it took me 4-5 hours to get everything back. > > I still don't understand why I trashed my hard disk areas outside > of the /dev/hda5 partition, when trying to use cpio directly to try > to restore from the KBackup-Arc.arc files on my ZIP disks, that > multibuf and afio had problems with. > [snip]
I do the above. I have an Iomega Zip; I backup my /home/ac and /etc (should probably do /usr/local as well). If I had to reinstall I would do it from the CD. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux - Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: www.pentelikon.co.uk/bookreviews/ Alternative email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's no go the Yogi Man, it's no go Blavatsky." - Louis MacNeice
