On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 05:12:08PM -0500, James Knott wrote:

I have 2 identical 60G hard drives. I simply clone the entire drive onto the other, which is mounted in a removable tray.

Also, the best backup system is redunancy. Make lots of copies, with off site storage, to minimize the potential loss. Live mirrors also help protect against physical damage.

1. My advice to those experiencing flaky harddisk... Spend the money on - good power supply and case - good harddisk - good motherboard Of the above, power supply is most often overlooked. It's the most important thing, in my opinion; and, I don't mean wattage rating on those. 2. Since I'm running Slackware, I don't do complete system backup. I only backup users data (ie. things that were added or modified since install). When doing total restore, I just run a script to do the complete installation of Linux from distribution CD; then, restore the users data. For other distro, it may be different, because this depends on whether you can do unattended complete install. -- William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> Linux solution for data management and processing. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml