On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:48:04 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 15 June 2010 14:40:44 Camaleón wrote:
>> I would differentiate between "backup" data and "archived" data. (...) > Thanks for this. I was originally responding to Andrew's saying: > <quote> > There are many many ways to make take backups beyond having a disk big > enough to hold the data. > </quote> > > I can think of very few - and was interested in what he was thinking of. > Incremental/differential backups are not really practical, since she > will be at school. Why not practical? Just curious O:-) > A periodic dd (or Clonezilla?) of the whole drive > and more frequent updates of her personal data (of which I understand > that there is not much) would be the optimum, but a trifle pricey, so I > am still looking at alternative possibilities. The main drawback I see for "dd" or "clonezilla" is that they are very "slowness". It takes much time (and space!) to make a full copy (or image) of the disk and so not very practical because at last the user stops doing the backup on a regular basis :-( Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.06.15.17.06...@gmail.com
