On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 15:02 +0530, BALAJI :) wrote: > I am using Debian Lenny, kernel version: 2.6.26-1-686. > I am very new to linux.
Welcome! You should be aware that there has been a new stable release of Debian named "Squeeze". I would recommend to upgrade your system to Squeeze by following the extensive notes in the Release notes [3]. If you have just installed Lenny and haven't configured it much yet it might, however, be easier to just reinstall your system using one of images for Squeeze. They can be found at http://www.debian.org/CD/ and the installation process is detailed in the Installation Guide which is available online at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual > Can you please let me know the steps for backing up my linux PC (maybe to a > CD) and later restoring from it when required. Also let me know if I can > install any Open source S/W that can do the above task (something like > scheduled backup). Implementing a backup strategy for your data is very good idea and there are a variety of tools that ease and automate this task. A good overview of the available programs can be found on the Debian Wiki [0] which also contains a plethora of other information you might find useful. A number of other resources are also linked in that article and you might want to read them as well. I would personally recommend dirvish [1] or backuppc [2] for your backups, but this really depends on your needs and the hardware you have available. I like to have backups created on a daily, weekly and monthly basis around which I can access directly without the need for specific restore tools. I therefore use dirvish and am happy with it, but other tools such as rsnapshot, duplicity or rsync based backups in general serve the same purpose. It should be noted that I do not backup to CDs but rather to removable media such as an external USB disk. I'd like to note that most of the packages in Debian install documentation to /usr/share/doc/<PACKAGENAME>/ and it is typically wise to have a look at the README.Debian file and other examples. A guide for dirvish can, for example, be found in /usr/share/doc/dirvish/HOWTO.Debian.gz and example configuration files in the examples/ directory. Have fun! [0] http://wiki.debian.org/BackupAndRecovery [1] http://www.dirvish.org/ http://www.dirvish.org/debian.howto.html [2] http://backuppc.sourceforge.net http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/BackupPC [3] http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/releasenotes -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland <wolodja.wentl...@ed.ac.uk> : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC
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