On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, steve szmidt wrote:
> On Monday 03 March 2008, Donald E Haselwood wrote:
>> What is a good way to backup the entire linux system?
>
>> I was wondering how Slug'ers are doing system backups (and of course the
>> next step is recovery, but that comes later).
>>
>> Don
>
> I never back up the whole thing as it's too easy to just reinstall from
> scratch.
Don't you have data you'd like to keep?
> For windows you can just use dd from Linux, or Ghost.
>
> On windows it takes a really long time to get back to where you were, but in
> Linux the install is fast.
If you do the installation, sure. Anc "fast" is relative. But they take
the same time if you do "dd".
> I looked on how often I loose drives vs how much
> it "cost" to backup everything.
Costs me nothing as I do the backup when I'm sleeping anyhow.
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