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 -- # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.CiscoLearning.org/ Roses are #FF0000, Violets are #0000FF, All my base, Are belong to you.