Re: Backup of debian

2002-02-19 Thread John Griffiths
At 08:45 AM 2/19/02 -0500, Rob Ransbottom wrote: >On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, John Griffiths wrote: > >> So we put together a new system, plugged in a new tape drive, inserted our >> last backup and got... >> nothing at all... >> the drives (we were told by the data recovery guys) gradually degrade with >

Re: Backup of debian

2002-02-19 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, John Griffiths wrote: > So we put together a new system, plugged in a new tape drive, inserted our > last backup and got... > nothing at all... > the drives (we were told by the data recovery guys) gradually degrade with > the heads physically dropping and writing lower and lo

Re: Backup of debian

2002-02-17 Thread John Griffiths
>> idea for a backup with such requirements (fast, small, home-env)? > >General discussion (I'd prefer tape to CD-R), including directory >suggestions are at: > >http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html > >Peace. > Oooh I've got a story here, One upon a time we needed to restore

Re: Backup of debian

2002-02-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 06:05:19PM -0500, Jens Gecius ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'd like to get some input on an idea I had to backup a pure debian > system. > > I like my backups on cd-r, so my current system backup eats roughly 10 > cd-r. For me, this seems a little too much, b

Re: Backup of debian

2002-02-13 Thread Ulf Rompe
Al Nikolov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So, I thought to take the information about the running system from >> the file /var/lib/dpkg/status, and just backing up those files >> deviating from the packages default-configs (the full files, no >> diffs). Additionally, /home gets backed up, perhaps

Re: Backup of debian

2002-02-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jens lots of free backup scripts that also writes to cdr http://www.Linux-Backup.net/app.gwif.html have fun linuxing alvin - other way is to save your /etc especially sources.list and have a way to boot your vigin machine and it can rebuild itself...again and use your saved /etc to

Re: Backup of debian

2002-02-09 Thread Al Nikolov
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 06:05:19PM -0500, Jens Gecius wrote: > > So, I thought to take the information about the running system from > the file /var/lib/dpkg/status, and just backing up those files > deviating from the packages default-configs (the full files, no > diffs). Additionally, /home gets