Try'n2Help
12-12-2002, 12:02 AM
What do you do in case of file loss, dead hard drives, software installs/experiments that did harm to the system? I would really like to know what other people do and share my current backup and restore procedures.
First of all I have a full OS recovery set on 2 - CDs that was made with a program called "Make CD-ROM Recovery (mkCDrec)" http://mkcdrec.ota.be/ and it works like Ghost or Drive Image and allows one to restore the entire system in about 5 minutes; awesome I can't say enough good things about it. Next I use "rsync" to mirror 2 - 40GB hard drives with all my music, videos, personal files, etc; this is scripted to run daily via crontab and this is also on many CDs so that in a worse case crash the data can be retrieved - slowly but its there. This system works great for me.
First of all I have a full OS recovery set on 2 - CDs that was made with a program called "Make CD-ROM Recovery (mkCDrec)" http://mkcdrec.ota.be/ and it works like Ghost or Drive Image and allows one to restore the entire system in about 5 minutes; awesome I can't say enough good things about it. Next I use "rsync" to mirror 2 - 40GB hard drives with all my music, videos, personal files, etc; this is scripted to run daily via crontab and this is also on many CDs so that in a worse case crash the data can be retrieved - slowly but its there. This system works great for me.