Backups - was: Re: LVM

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

Please excuse the thread breaking.  I have suddenly been being rejected by the 
list server and am sending for the third time.  I hope that the list server 
is now happy with my SMTP settings.

On Tuesday 15 June 2010 01:25:56 Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> There are many many ways to make take backups beyond having a disk big
> enough to hold the data.

Would you feel inclined to elaborate?  I'm trying to solve this problem for my 
granddaughter's large HDD, and am not keen to have to buy a 300GB external 
drive.  Tar would still require a fairly large medium. :-(    

Lisi