[olug] Backups??

[Don Kauffman]

In case anyone is curious about the backup system I decided on, it's a
Seagate external USB Hard Drive with 160 GB of Storage. Fairly
inexpensive and it does the job. Now I need to figure out a script and
cron job to automate the backups. Will do that sometime this week.

Thanks for all the assistance and advice! Sorry I couldn't make it to
the OLUG meeting on backups. My Life is nuts right now! 

Don K.

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 08:55 -0600, Don Kauffman wrote:
> Since my hard drive failed and I lost most of my "life", I've become
> keenly aware that I need a back up system. So I've got several
> questions. 
> 
> First of all, I'd like to do an informal poll and find out what people
> are using to back up their personal data with Linux. I figure this will
> be of interest to others as well.
> 
> Secondly, I'd like to know if anyone has experience using the USB Hard
> drives as backups to their Linux data and what that experience has been.
> I'd like to know what you had to do to get it working. 
> 
> Thirdly, I've toyed with the idea of getting an older machine and
> putting a larger hard drive in it to serve as a backup but that seems
> kind of iffy. Has anyone done that?
> 
> Thanks in advance for participating in my "informal poll"! Any
> suggestions are welcome!
> 
> Don K.
> 
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