Folllow up to my Disk Druid Question, or "comedy of errors"

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Sat Apr 10 17:25:51 EDT 2004


On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 20:22:56 +0000
dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:

> All of these are good. Here are some other good things:
> 
> - Use LVM and resizable filesystems.
> - Use disk mirroring. If you're buying a computer, put in two drives,
>   not one.
> - If you've got multiple machines, use rsync to make regular backups
> of
>   important data to a different machine.
> - If you've got a CD burner, burn your /home (at least) every month or
>   so. Label the CDs.
Yes, good advice. One of the problems I have with CDs is they won't hold
my home directory (probably because of 10 years of saved email :-). 


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