Backup

[der.hans]

Am 20. Okt, 2007 schwätzte Carlton Brooks so:

> Since someone mentioned yesterday about moving from one drive to
> another.... This leads me to my question of backup.
>
> I have read half a dozen articles about backing up a linux machine. I am
> now confused even more about what should be done and HOW it should be done.
>
> Can any members of this group offer me some help.
>
> What I would like to do is create a backup on an external drive.

I suggest using one of the rsync style hard link farm backups.

rsnapshot is one that seems to be available everywhere. In my experience
rsnapshot works quite well.

ciao,

der.hans
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