[plug] Linux backup programs

[Jeremy Malcolm]

Travis Read wrote:
> 
> The only backup solution I've been able to come up with involved
> installing a second HDD and doing a dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb once a
> month...
> 
> Anybody else got a better backup solution?

I use something similar but with a removable IDE HDD in caddy and using
rsync rather than dd, so that it's quicker.  It's not a public package,
just some scripts we've hacked together.  Works fine and you can even
take the HDD out without the system complaining (although I believe that
depends on your motherboard).

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