Re: Workstation Backup Strategies

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On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 12:26:44 -0400, you wrote:

>What tool is the best for backing up a single workstation onto multiple 
>DVDs.  Ideally incrementally, but I would still do new full backups from 
>time to time as DVDs are notoriously unreliable.  Many of the backup 
>tools I have found seem to be meant for networked backups of multiple 
>machines to HD or tape.  I know I could probably write some kind of 
>script, but I bet a better coder than I has already solved this problem.

"Best" depends at least partly on why you want a backup.  If you want
to be able to do a bare metal restore when you throw a drive, look
into Mondo.  If you just want to keep a copy of the /etc and data dirs
for when the user goofs, just tar it to a dvd.

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