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<div>As a simple home user... I use Grsync from the desktop to backup my home directory to an external drive, and once per month, I use rsync to copy backup drive to a second drive.</div>
<div><br>I really like Grsync from the desktop... two clicks to activate my standard home directory backup, but I don't understand how to use it from the GUI desktop to backup say, the entire home directory without tinkering with everybody's permissions.</div>
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<div>For an all-users data backup, I usually just drop into a terminal, log in as root and use rsync.</div>
<div>I like backing up my data in simple standard file structures that don't require any special software to read through... my main backup drive is formatted NTFS. Occasionally I boot the machine into Windows, and it is nice to be able to access all of the Linux files backed up there easily from Windows... and vice-versa.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Nicu Buculei <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicu_fedora@nicubunu.ro">nicu_fedora@nicubunu.ro</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On 03/03/2010 06:50 PM, Hristo Petkov wrote:<br>> Hi Guys,<br>><br>> What are you going to backup.<br><br></div>In an ideal world you would backup *everything*.<br>
<div class="im"><br>> The OS is 'backed-up' on the live CD, the applications are 'backed-up'<br><br></div>That's the base OS, without any applications and without updates. Going<br>up-to-date will take a lot longer than restoring a backup.<br>
<div class="im"><br>> all over the web, the repository lists can be found in Google, and the<br><br></div>Hunting for apps and installing them online means you can't use your<br>computer for your needs.<br>
<div class="im"><br>> user files can simply be copied onto a flash memory - 64 GB for example.<br><br></div>Are you joking? When did you copy last time your /home on a flash<br>memory? How long did it take?<br>
<div class="im"><br>> What is more with every new installation of the OS you are becomming<br>> better and better - this is a unique chance to improve your skills and<br>> to update or upgrade the OS.<br><br></div>
I take you never lost you /home so far...<br>
<div class="im"><br>> What are you going to backup.<br><br></div>Usually every user has to decide for a backup strategy examining various<br>trade-offs: size, space, time, importance of data.<br>For a simple user (the target of the Desktop spin) I expect to be about<br>
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