D'oh! Backup issue solved

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Sun Sep 3 08:54:22 2000

> It used to be that one could do backups on a home-based system. However,
> softare to handle the backups just doesn't seem to be there. It's not
> complicated, so one could, I suppose, roll-yer-own.

My solution has been to abandon backups, and to create archives instead.
When possible, I try to extract from the running system any configuration
info I'd need to get back to where I was, and include that in the archive
as well.

But backing up home systems in situ is problematic, since you generally
have to have a running system from which to restore the backup anyway.

regards,
-doug q
Received on Sun Sep 03 2000 - 08:54:22 BST