Re: Debian OS Backup

2007-06-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 01:03:33PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Note that the use of external drives like USB for "disaster recovery" is not a very good idea. You need to store your backups remote from the computer being backed up, and you need at least three backups

Re: Debian OS Backup

2007-06-13 Thread Paul Johnson
Jacob Ramirez wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > We are running linux with Debian OS. I am new to using linux and > debian. Can I use an external hard drive to backup the operating system > and files on our linux servers? Of course. > If so, how do I crea

Re: Debian OS Backup

2007-06-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 01:03:33PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Note that the use of external drives like USB for "disaster recovery" > is not a very good idea. You need to store your backups remote from the > computer being backed up, and you need at least three backups used in > rotation. So, u

Re: Debian OS Backup

2007-06-08 Thread Larry Irwin
Jacob Ramirez wrote: We are running linux with Debian OS. I am new to using linux and debian. Can I use an external hard drive to backup the operating system and files on our linux servers? If so, how do I create a full backup of the system for disaster recovery? Is it easy to restore if there

Re: Debian OS Backup

2007-06-08 Thread Mike McCarty
Jacob Ramirez wrote: We are running linux with Debian OS. I am new to using linux and debian. Can I use an external hard drive to backup the operating system and files on our linux servers? If so, how do I create a full backup of the system for disaster recovery? Is it easy to restore if ther

Re: Debian OS Backup

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Lale
Jacob Ramirez wrote: > We are running linux with Debian OS. I am new to using linux and > debian. Can I use an external hard drive to backup the operating system > and files on our linux servers? If so, how do I create a full backup of > the system for disaster recovery? Is it easy to restore i

Re: Debian OS Backup

2007-06-08 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:34:52 -0400 KS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob Ramirez wrote: > > We are running linux with Debian OS. I am new to using linux and > > debian. Can I use an external hard drive to backup the operating system > > and files on our linux servers? If so, how do I create a

Re: Debian OS Backup

2007-06-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:54:25AM -0500, Jacob Ramirez wrote: > We are running linux with Debian OS. I am new to using linux and > debian. Can I use an external hard drive to backup the operating system > and files on our linux servers? If so, how do I create a full backup of > the system for d

Re: Debian OS Backup

2007-06-08 Thread KS
Jacob Ramirez wrote: We are running linux with Debian OS. I am new to using linux and debian. Can I use an external hard drive to backup the operating system and files on our linux servers? If so, how do I create a full backup of the system for disaster recovery? Is it easy to restore if th

Re: Debian OS Backup

2007-06-08 Thread Pol Hallen
> Is there documentation somewhere that I can read that explains how to do > this? Thanks for your help in advance. Hi, u can see: rsync or do: apt-cache search backup Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian OS Backup

2007-06-08 Thread Jacob Ramirez
We are running linux with Debian OS. I am new to using linux and debian. Can I use an external hard drive to backup the operating system and files on our linux servers? If so, how do I create a full backup of the system for disaster recovery? Is it easy to restore if there is a need? Is there d