[Elecraft] OT - backup software

[Kevin Cozens]

On 2018-09-29 04:09 PM, Grant Youngman wrote:
> Whatever you use, you need a complete .. e.g., 100 % clone of your hard drive that is BOOTABLE. (USB, firewire, plug-in, Thunderbolt, whatever).  Doesn’t matter whether it’s an external drive, a thumb thingie, or whatever.  It just has to be bootable.

I'm using rsync to do backups. I keep bootable CD's and USB memory sticks 
containing Linux so I can use them to start up the computer from "bare 
metal" should the hard drives fail.

For anyone using backup programs that aren't stock with their Linux distro I 
would suggest keeping a backup of the backup program so you can easily 
reinstall it if/when you use a bootable media to bring up the computer in 
order to restore drive contents after a failure.

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