hard candy
06-03-2004, 09:53 AM
Shivalik (http://www.tldp.org/linuxfocus/English/May2004/article337.shtml)
a nice little backup tool. Doesn't backup the whole installation, just the important config files in a directory on the HD. You can copy the backup to a cd,etc.
" There are a whole lot of HOWTOs out there which tell you what to do if you have a serious problem with your Linux installation. Good for us. But there is no one there who told you what you should do before disaster strikes you ! Here is a simple but not so short shell script which may reduce your miseries. Run it once as soon as you install your Linux system and run it every time you make major changes in your system. You can even tinker it a little and make it run as a cron job every so many hours. And then, you can sleep in peace. Like the saying goes -- you must lock your stables before the horse is lost. "
a nice little backup tool. Doesn't backup the whole installation, just the important config files in a directory on the HD. You can copy the backup to a cd,etc.
" There are a whole lot of HOWTOs out there which tell you what to do if you have a serious problem with your Linux installation. Good for us. But there is no one there who told you what you should do before disaster strikes you ! Here is a simple but not so short shell script which may reduce your miseries. Run it once as soon as you install your Linux system and run it every time you make major changes in your system. You can even tinker it a little and make it run as a cron job every so many hours. And then, you can sleep in peace. Like the saying goes -- you must lock your stables before the horse is lost. "