Suggestions on laptop backup

[Geoff Burke]

Hi All,

I am interested in hearing what you use for backing up a linux laptop 
(amanda, bacula, rsync, tar and so on).


I would want to backup to either a DVD or a external harddrive through usb.


cheers

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 07:27 +0300, Geoff Burke wrote:
>  Hi All,
>  
>  I am interested in hearing what you use for backing up a linux laptop 
>  (amanda, bacula, rsync, tar and so on).
>  
>  
>  I would want to backup to either a DVD or a external harddrive through usb. 
I use "rsync -Pavy --delete-after" for my /home partition, plus a couple
extra things like /etc and some parts of /var.  I usually also grab a
list of installed packages.

There are many cool ways to keep version-controlled home directories,
but I admit to not using them; the only older versions of things that
usually interest me are already in version control systems like Fedora
Docs or Extras CVS or my home SVN system.

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