You mentioned a Windoze-PC, sh I'd suggest you make a separate partition on that one and do a "tar zcvf" to that partition. RAR for Linux might be an option as well...
It's faster than using a CD-RW and, for once, you'll make proper use of your windoze-machine ;-) Jeroen Valcke <jeroen@valcke.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > After the not so pleasant adventures of last night (see my previous mail > "unattached inode") I started realizing that instead of my root fs the > problems could have occured on my home partition, destroying valuable > data. I must admit I don't make backups on a regular basis. Now and then I > copy some important files to another (win) pc on my home LAN. > So I need better backup. What do you use? > What kind of media? Tape, CD, second hd, ... > How to backup? one full backup every month, incremental every week? > The cd solution probably has an advantage, since I could use the cd-writer > for other cd-writing too. > > Thanks for your thoughts. > > -- > Jeroen Valcke jeroen@valcke.com > ICQ# 30116911 Home page: http://www.valcke.com/jeroen > Phone +32(0)56 32 91 37 Mobile +32(0)486 88 21 26 > "Je me souviens" (Quebec license plate) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
