On 4/18/10 10:39 AM, Warren Block wrote:
If you don't have any other drives, where will the backup file be stored
so it survives a system failure or reinstall?
Thoughts on this would be appreciated...
dump/restore is the standard safe way; you can send it over ssh to back
up to a file on another machine. Sometimes people use dd, which can be
effective if you use some tricks like filling unused space with zero so
compression is effective.
There's another option. I've mentioned clonezilla.org here before as a
way to back up Windows systems; it's fast and only copies used sectors.
I would sftp/scp the file over to another unix (or windows via samba)
machine I have. Then burn the resulting file to DVD RW media.
--
J.D. Bronson
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