On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 09:10:54 -0600 Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
> I've been good about telling others that backups are a good idea. > Guess who hadn't and then crashed his system and spent hours putting > things back together ;< > > In the past individual projects ended up on individual flash drives > as I was frequently using different machines. I now have some > reliable hardware and a large internal hard drive. > > I have one partition that might be called a "production" environment, > i.e. fairly stable and has the most valuable content. > A second partition hosts my experiments - I've a project to create an > optimal install. The third is the target of those experimental > installs whose content doesn't rate explicit backups. The scripts for > creating those installs being on the second partition. > > I've vague ideas of what backup pattern(s) I might follow. > I'm looking for reading materials that might trigger "I hadn't > thought of that" moments. > > Suggestions? There is a nice overview about different backup software in the Arch Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Synchronization_and_backup_programs Also an interesting read (about various pitfalls when backing up): http://www.halfgaar.net/backing-up-unix Regards, Merlin > TIA > > -- Merlin Büge <t...@bluenox07.de>
