On Mon, 19 May 2008 14:45:05 +0100 "Keith Watson" keith.watson@kewill.com allegedly wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: James Elsey Sent: 19 May 2008 10:22
Can anyone suggest a good backup procedure whereby I can backup all my photos/mp3s/videos etc under /home?
I could back them up to a separate drive, but I only have old hard disks (10gbs) and don't really trust them. I'd like to backup onto DVD but my /home is around 80gb
I have separate partitions for /home, pictures, documents, music, video and mail (.evolution) and mount them via fstab under my /home directory. I keep each one to 5Gb so I can back it up to DVD.
That seems like an awful lot of faffing about to me. Two obvious alternatives:
- buy a USB drive (50 quid will get you 350-500G) and backup to that.(Hell, if you are really skint and live close enough to Long Stratton to pick it up I'll /give/ you an 80Gig USB drive)
- use rsync to backup to a remote system (I backup hourly to a separate networked system)
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