Re: [MLUG] partion

[JEFF MCCRIGHT <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

You might look into an imaging software solution such as:

Powerquest Partition Magic
Symantec Ghost

Just an idea.

Thanks,

Jeffrey McCright

On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 20:59:59 -0600 (CST), EMAIL:PROTECTED wrote:

>  > suppose  i have a windows partition on my hard drive
>  > 1)fat
>  > 2) linux
>  > 3)ntfs
>  > 
>  > how will i be able to recover all the data on these if
>  > ever by mistake or a virus one the partition wipeup
>  > any idea?
>  
>  A cd burner (do any dvd burners work in Linux yet?), tape backup drive,
or
>  removable hdd is a good investment as you can easily copy all your files
>  and then restore them should something nasty happen.
>  
>  Usually a simple cron job set to tar your files every day at a certain
>  time (maybe certain files more often if you update them frequently) will
>  work. If you need help writing a script let me know and I'll help
>  you. There are backup utilities but I find them more cumbersome than cron
>  jobs and tar. (Most of the utilities use those anyway.)
>  
>  If you are burning them to cd then you need to make sure you have enough
>  diskspace available for a copy of all your important files. Depending on
>  your cd-r drive and the cd-r's you buy you need to usually make sure that
>  no single file image is more than 650-700MB. Usually you'll want to
create
>  an ISO of your backup first and then burn it to disc. If you're short on
>  diskspace it is possible to have the ISO created directly to the cd-r.
>  
>  Tape backup drives and slow but usually hold more than a single cd-r and
>  they are reusable. You can tar directly to tape usually. That was the
>  original intent of the tar program.
>  
>  My favorite method is using a removable harddrive as usually you can put
>  as big a disk in as you need and just pull it out when you're not using
>  it. It's probably the cheapest method per megabyte and is reusable. You
>  can buy harddrive adaption kits and then just pick a good harddrive of
the
>  required size to put in it. If you have two or more you can swap them
back
>  and forth to reduce the risk of someone messing with your files in subtle
>  ways you might not notice for a while. Since it works as a normal hdd you
>  can just copy the files directly or with tar. I like using tar myself as
>  it keeps things nice and neat and you can put more than one days backups
>  per drive if you have enough space.
>  
>  The most important part is to have a plan you stick with for backup and
>  recovery. Once shit happens you're out of luck. You have to take
>  precautions while everything is still running smoothly.
>  
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