I can not speak for the "linux people" nor do I even know who they are, but welcome to using linux. To answer your question partially, I find rsync and a cron job (running 3 times a day) my preferred way of backing up.
What you back up depends on what you can not do without in the event of a crash (my philosophy).
HTH, Ranjan
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:33:22 +0100 Raf Roger raf.news@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
coming from microsoft windows world, i would like to know what is the best backup solution/tool under linux. I'm aware of simple backup suite and fwbackups, however i would like to understand the phylosophy behind Linux backup.
under windows we used to backup the complete partition with files also store in it. this is the simplest method.
However under linux, till now i found only how to backup files...nothing about partition. could you explain me how linux people understand backup ? should we only backup user's files and settings ? how to you backup a webserver for example ? this is not a simple item and it is not only user's files. thx
-- Alain
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