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Making Backups

Posted by jamba on February 22, 2010

Backups can be very important, no one wants to lose any of their data–especially if it has happened to you before.

I have previously setup my x64 desktop PC with softRAID, so everything I have in my /home folder is mirrored across 2 drives.  However, I am not sure if I am overly paranoid, or maybe I just like to be extra secure because now I have implemented an additional backup measure.

It started when I read some of this stuff about backups and solutions, so I decided I should probably do something similar.  The one from distrowatch really pushed me a long though, as the Q&A thing really made sense.

To start off, I began by reading the ArchWiki backup tools page: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Backup_Programs.  I chose to try a few of them, I didn’t like arch-backup, backerupper didn’t really work the way I liked.  A few more just didn’t work for me. Read the rest of this entry »

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