USB hard drive's are so cheap it looks like the way to go....
Thanks for the info,
Jim
If you want a quick restore, then you'd better be taking One Big
Filesystem Image, probably to a USB hard disk. If you can get away
without backing up everything every time, *and* if you have spare disk
space to take compressed tar files of valuable filesystems, you might
get away with using DVD±RW. Or you could use the new dual-layer DVD±Rs.
(Don't try copying files directly to FAT32 or DVD: tar them first.
Otherwise you'll lose ownership and permissions data.)
You should at least be looking to backup /root, /etc, /home, some
stuff under /var (e.g. /var/log/rpmpkgs), /srv if you use it...
Personally, I have a simple shell script to tar and gzip certain
directories and burn those archives to DVD+RW. But then, if I ever
wanted to reinstall the machine, I'd want to do things differently.
Whatever you do, test the re-install...
James.
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