GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams
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Backup

Computers crash, disks become corrupt, data is lost, security is compromised. Today, computers are pretty reliable and it is rare to lose data (except through accidental deletion) but it can happen and usually when it is most inconvenient! Important work should always be backed up.

In this chapter we review approaches to backup and recovery. We begin with a review of recovering accidently delted files from a filesytem that is not backed up. Then we continue with simple approaches to backing up, including backing up to CD and the use of a commercial backup system called Legato NetWorker (also known as the Solstice NetWorker).

My current backup routine is through the use of backup-manager, which is easy to configure and run. Alternatives include backup2l, backuppc, bacula, cdbackup, dar, and mondo.

Subsections

• File Recovery
• Backup Manager
• Cedar Backup
• Mondo Backup
  • Troubleshooting
  
  
• Simple Backup
• Backup To Other Computers
• Legato NetWorker