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Ernst-Udo Wallenborn wrote in ch.comp.os.linux:

>> Regarding tape technologies: I would opt for DAT drives. Even 
>> if speed is not your major concern, there are times when you
>> are glad to have a fast tape (when it comes to restore...). 
>
>[DAT vs. CDROM vs. MO disk as backup medium]

As I do nightly backups, I would not want to use CDROMs...
but some kind of disk technology (or even ZipDrive) is a
viable alternative. OTOH I also do full backup (makes restoring
*a lot* easier), so I need a rather large medium for the backup.
Then I need a multi-generation backup. It's cheaper to buy
additional DAT tapes than additional MO disks. 

>Re software: You want the restore program to have an as primitive
>as possible user interface, Because usually you have a clean
>[cpio, kbackup, bru & co.]

That's why I chose taper. It's text mode and even runs in 
single-user mode.


>ObRelatedIssue: What's the best way to setup/backup a linux
>system that can be endoscopically restored? I mean, in case

My system is based on SuSE 6.1, with the most important 
programs self-compiled, and a few programs updated and
compiled. 

All programs which I replaced are stored in a software
archive, which is also included in a weekly backup. With
this setup, I install from SuSE 6.1 disk/CD and then
compile the additional programs.

As I include /etc (and some KDE settings, though I'm not 
sure that I found all the relevant files;) in the daily 
backup, it's not a real pain to reinstall even a completely
rotten system. I even backup the vmware virtual disk (a file
of 1 GB), so I could just backup the WinNT that's running
inside VMWare. 

There are only a few things that I do *not* back up (/proc,
/var/spool/news, /tmp, most /*bin*, most /*lib*, and the
texmf-Tree).

Gruss,
Matthias
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leisi@gmx.ch                                            Matthias Leisi