On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 07:29:21AM +0000, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > > /usr/bin/yes make backups\!\!\! > > I'm a student = have no money for backup devices. Plus I'm still really > pissed off that I bought a 10gig 7200 rpm seagate about 3 days before a big > thread in here on how unreliable seagates are. Agh! > > Plus I have no IDE slots left so would have to buy a SCSI = very expensive. > poo :-(
well in this case you should split off your partitions, create seperate / /tmp /usr /var and /home partitions. then backup /var (or just /var/lib/dpkg) to /home/backup/ *usually* filesystem corruption does not end up wrecking all your filesystems at the same time, so if only /var gets trashed (in this case) you still have a backup in /home/backup. if the disk dies your screwed, but this method protects you from filesystem corruption fairly well. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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