On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, AG wrote:
Generally I have relied on the separate partitioning of my /home
directory as some measure of protection against hosing my system
through pebkac-type activities, but this is not necessarily the most
reliable of options and certainly won't help in the case of a
catastrophic HDD-failure.
Thus, can I please have a few recommendations for a backup routine
that is safe for dummies (i.e. me) and is low maintenance that I can
just leave to run according to a cron job once (or twice) a week? It
would be backing up to my former IDE HDD (now in an enclosure) via an
USB. It would be best if the application was able to tell what has
changed between backup sessions to back up only that which is new, but
perhaps that is the default anyway.
I have been using rsync with a usb 320 Gb drive to back up 3 flavors of
linux. So far no problems,