Re: Backing up programs

2003-12-31 Thread Dany
Francisco Reyes wrote: On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Dany wrote: On my file server I have 2 drives. I also have two drives on each of my machines. One for backup. I also keep several days worth of backups in case I corrupt a file. Overall I think I have the data part of the backup covered properly

Re: Backing up programs

2003-12-31 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Dany wrote: > On my file server I have 2 drives. I also have two drives on each of my machines. One for backup. I also keep several days worth of backups in case I corrupt a file. Overall I think I have the data part of the backup covered properly, although I plan to backup s

Re: Backing up programs

2003-12-31 Thread Dany
On my file server I have 2 drives. I looked at RAID but it doesn't help solving the major issue ... me, user removing files that are not supposed to be removed so incremental backup is a plus. On the first one there is the linux system (sorry... I promise I will switch to fbsd) as well as data

Backing up programs

2003-12-31 Thread Francisco Reyes
With every HD problem I loose less and less data. On my last episode I lost only the current day's worth of data (backup at night). However I realised that I also need to backup programs installed on the machine. It takes a long time to rebuild all packages (I had a list of ports I had installed).