Re: [seul-edu] Linux Backup

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

bill@mail.tasis.ch wrote:

> Good point.  I figure on backing up the user's data (/home) weekly -- maybe
> daily (some kind of incremental thing when available).  Of course I will also
> want to occasionally back up  /etc/ directory.  Maybe on a separate tape.

tar should be fine for that, although you may want to use taper (included in a
bunch of distros, downloadable in RPM or DEB formats from various places) for
it's nice user interface.

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