Hello Hanigan Family, Once you wrote about "backup questions": > Hi all, > I have a few backup questions. > 1. I have always used cpio to back up > my data files on my unix system and > it works fine with linux, but I have noticed > everybody seems to post stuff on tar. > Is there a reason tar might be better than > cpio? You may use different software for your backups... In the attach is a list of links to some nice programs... > 2. To make a complete backup I am wondering > if I really need to backup everything after all > I can reinstall everything from the cd, but I > would want all the configuration files so > would it be enough to do /etc, /var, /home > /usr/lib/rhs . I usually backup: /boot, /home, /etc, /var/log ... -- Best regards, Leonid Mamtchenkov E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Profile: http://www.tekmetrics.com/transcript.jsp?pid=64423 Quote : Programmers do it by pushing and popping.
Backups http://www.amnda.org/ - Amanda ftp://ftp.zn-gmbh.com/pub/linux/ - afbackup http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~jmelski/burt/ - Burt http://www.estinc.com/features.html - BRU http://www.estinc.com/qsdr.html - Quickstart http://www.unitrends.com/bp.html - Backup Professional http://www.unitrends.com/ctar.html - CTAR http://www.unitrends.com/ctarnet.html - CTAR:NET http://www.unitrends.com/pcpara.html - PC ParaChute Commercial: http://www.arkeia.com/ - Arkeia http://www.legato.com/Products/html/legato_networker.html - Legato Networker Linux client http://feral.com/networker.html - Legato Networker server
