Re: System Reinstall Setup
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 11:21:46PM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:53:24PM -0500, David wrote:
> > Actually, I'm not so concerned about making the backups as just having
> > something that I can boot up and then remove the CD.
>
> My backup strategy is similar to yours. I regularly create tars of
> my file systems and put them on CD-RW. I dont have something to boot
> the system yet, in case this should be necessary some day, but this
> shouldnt be much of a problem. The Debian installation floppies
> should suffice for this. If not there are lots of rescue floppy
That's what I'd like to get away from, however, is the dependency upon
floppies. They seem so unreliable nowadays. Of course, I suppose that
one could download a fresh rescue floppy image, or have an image stored
on another system if available.
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