[Techtalk] Backup solutions

[Davis, Jennifer]

If I could add to that, I was wondering what directories need to be backed
up?  My PC was stolen a couple of months ago and with it my cd burner. I
just haven't had the resources to put a burner on the new machine (and I
find I can live without the device).  What I would like to do is just backup
the directories that require a backup.  I am assuming they are:

/home/
/usr/local/
/var/spool/
/var/www/
/etc/rc.d/
/usr/src/linux/.config

(at least for my distro (Slackware 8.0)

What I was thinking of doing was a cron job to put these into a tgz file and
keep as many of these files as the backup computer will hold.  The only
thing I have not figured out is how do I stop the tar program from following
the links, ie from my home directory to the /var/www/htdocs directory and
how to give each tgz file a unique name, like the date.

Jenn





-----Original Message-----
From: James [mailto:james at james-web.net]
Sent: 2002 Apr 25 9:20 AM
To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
Subject: [Techtalk] Backup solutions


Anyone know of any easy tape backup solutions for Linux?  Preferably one
that I won't have to mortgage my kidneys to get.

It is for a mail server, if that means anything :)  

Also, what kind of backup policy does your organization (or you
yourself) have?

- James

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