Hello,
"smartest" way to do backups .. assuming you want to protect your data a) if your data is on /dev/hda ... than backup to another disk on another PC -- never backup to the same disk - if the disk dies, you lose both main and backup stuff - if your system goes down, you might not be able to boot off /dev/hda7 if your MBR went bonkers b) cp /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.backup.conf
What good would that do?
c) you can copy everyging from /dev/hda3 to /dev/hda7 but why ?? "debian setup/files" is already backed up millions of times on the web
I want an image of my current system to restore when I mess up. Hans