As much as possible, treat your OS backups separately from your data backups. That's because your data tends to change much faster than your OS, and losing / restoring one doesn't really affect the other that much. That being said:
mondorescue/clonezilla -> make a bootable CD for your OS rdiff-backup -> secondary storage for your data One advantage of treating your data backups separately is that it's easier to pick practically transparent systems like rdiff-backup or rsnapshot or just plain rsync, so that copying files is almost as easy as browsing to the backup location. Rescue CDs tend to leave you with opaque images that take a bit of work to browse through. And you'll also have to make less of them. On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Andres Montiel, CUA <kyut...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Would anyone have a recommendation as to how I can back up my Ubuntu 10.10 > system? It has around 200GB of files (it serves as the backup of all the > computers at home so it houses a ton of photos and videos). I tried > remastersys, but I got a message saying that the file created was larger than > iso9660 (I hope I remembered it correctly) would allow. > I just need a simple way to back it up and put it back on the same computer > just in case the hard drive fails. > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph -- This email is: [ ] actionable [ ] fyi [ ] social Response needed: [ ] yes [ ] up to you [ ] no Time-sensitive: [ ] immediate [ ] soon [ ] none _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
