Summary


I hope that you never experience a major hard drive crash, but if you ever do, the effort of making backups will repay itself many times over. A variety of low-cost backup hardware is available to use with your Fedora or RHEL system. The traditional tape drive is an excellent choice for backing up large amounts of data or data that you need to keep for years . However, even a simple copy of your /home directories to another medium offers some level of protection for your data.

For convenience, a writable DVD or CD drive is a good choice. As for the tools you choose to do your backups, the dump and restore commands are old favorites, dating back to the early UNIX days (although they are considered somewhat unreliable these days). The Amanda backup facility is excellent for network backups. If you are dealing with backups in several different formats, the pax command might be helpful.




Fedora 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bible
Fedora 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bible
ISBN: 047008278X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 279

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