Backups & Sharing

["Allen B. Riddell" <ariddell@concentric.net>]

I've got a relatively small harddrive running Debian -- I could fit it all 
on a CD-R, and I'd like to, frankly. I LOVE debian and my system now.

What's the recommended way of doing this. I fear that I'll backup crazy 
stuff if I just tar the entire root directory --- isn't there some wacky 
stuff in /proc and other stuff to screw up?

Anyway -- any help would be appreciated.


Also -- I'm wondering, I mount my windows HD on to /win or something silly 
like that -- but is there any way I can give access to the directory /win 
-- read and write access to one user other than root?

Thanks

-abr