Workstation Backup Strategies
Michael W Cocke
cocke at catherders.com
Sun Jun 18 01:12:08 UTC 2006
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.
Mike-
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