Re: backup using hard disk - any ideas

[George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>]

kbackup (no, it is NOT a KDE package) will do a disk to disk backup.
Compresses pretty nice too. Best of all, using kbackup, backups can be
restored WITHOUT kbackup if you need to in an emergency.



On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, King Lee wrote:

> 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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