[buug] Backups [Was: Trapped in Upgrade Hell]

[Nick Moffitt]

begin  Rick Moen  quotation:
> Quoting James Howard (buug at multivax.net):
> > FWIW: On my home system, I have /home and /var on a RAID-1 mirror.
> > Files from /home, /var /etc, and some others are backed up fully
> > and incrementally to an alternating pair of removable ide drives.
> > I have roughly 4 copies of my data at various states to protect
> > against both mechanical failure, and to a lesser extent, other
> > types of loss.
> 
> Four generations of copies isn't really backup in any serious sense
> of the term:  You either have snapshot so far apart in time that
> much of the change history is totally missing, or the backups go so
> little distance into the past as to provide zero ability to recover
> from, say, a hardware fault that is subtly corrupted your files six
> months ago.

	Agreed. You may wish to look into rdiff-backup instead.  It
does incrementals, and the last backup is always a "live" directory
tree.  Go ape and back THAT up to removeable media for maximal peace
of mind.


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