On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:16:04 +0200, yonatan maman said: > 10x alot for your tips. > about backing up the system - how do u suggets me to do it ? is there > any common tools for that ? Depends on what you have available. Personally, I have a set of scripts that use the native 'dump' commands (from dump-0.4b37-3) to write something onto the laptop's CD/RW in case I need to use 'restore'. I know somebody who has about 70G of high-performance disk on his system - so he bought a cheap slow 100G drive, hooked it up, and every night uses 'tar' to copy everything from the fast disk to the slow disk. When he's not backing up, he disconnects it so a system going kersplat can't affect it (very clever - it's a USB disk, and he has it plugged into a power supply that's remotely controllable. So he starts it before he goes to bed, and when the script finishes at 3AM or whatever, it unmounts the drive and then tells the power strip to turn itself off, so if the system crashes after, the drive is safe...) At work, some of the machines I run use Legato Networker to back up to a central backup server, and other machines of ours use Tivoli's product. Some people are quite happy with 'amanda', which is much cheaper than Legato or Tivoli. It really doesn't matter *what* you use, as long as: 1) It works. 2) You have more than one copy of your data, and they're not in a fate-sharing situation (i.e. if one goes, you don't lose the other). If my laptop or my friend's 70G of data suddenly die, the backup is available. At work, the backup tapes end up in a concrete bunker about 5 miles from the data center. But we're *paranoid* about that data.. (Strictly speaking, it's *possible* that a fire at my home could destroy both the laptop and the backup disks. But if it manages *that*, I'm going to be too busy being homeless to worry about the backups... ;)
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