Re: backup using hard disk - any ideas
Hello,
I use two IDE drives, and nightly (with cron) copy selected files from
the drive that contains my data two the other. I have a script that
that uses find and cpio. The important line is something like
cd $dir; find . ! -name "*.o" ! -name "*.exe" ... | cpio -pdv $backup
I wont know how good it is until one of disks dies, but I think it
should work.
King Lee
king@ultrix6.cs.csubak.edu
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, JonesMB wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently had a hard drive die on me causing me to lose lots of data. I
> have rebuilt my system (a K6/233 with Debian on 1GB and Win95 on 1GB) and I'm
> looking at various ways of backing up my data so I don't lose it all again.
> I currently have about 2 GB of drive space that I am not using and want to
> devote to backing up my system. At worst I can just do a cpio or tar but I
> am sure there is a more elegant way to do it. There might even be a package
> which does this. Any ideas are appreciated.
>
> TIA
> jmb
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