The backup

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Mar 3 17:17:19 UTC 2010


Nicu Buculei (nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro) said: 
> Usually every user has to decide for a backup strategy examining various 
> trade-offs: size, space, time, importance of data.
> For a simple user (the target of the Desktop spin) I expect to be about 
> documents, data and settings.

Ideally, I would think a backup would contain:
- a full backup of the user's data, settings, documents (i.e., $HOME)
- some sort of recovery script that contains their repository info and
  installed packages, to kick off a recovery of the system

Bill


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