Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Basic question for new LibreOffice user...

Hi :)
Cd & Dvd do seem to suffer unless kept in a very carefully controlled 
environment.  A couple of years ago someone in DistroWatch was detailing how 
their company stored their back-up discs.  My neighbour managed to fix one of 
his dvds by taking a sanding machine to it!  Not something i would recommend but 
he was using a very fine grain.  


Backing-up seems to be easier in Gnu&Linux.  Simple commands such as Rsync or 
(GRsync if you want the Gnome gui front-end for it) keep all file permissions 
intact and notice which files are newer at which end and can back-up over a 
network easily.  I'm not sure Rsync would help with encryption.  FIle transfers 
tend to be faster with Gnu&Linux and can be used to back-up Windows files.  


The fastest seems to be to boot into a Gnu&Linux installed on 1 physical 
hard-drive and use it to back-up the data from the other drive over the 
network.  With SSDs it doesn't make much difference but with Sata/Ide-drives it 
can help to reduce the amount of movement the read/write heads need.  Hence why 
it is good to have Swap/Virtual Memory on a different physical drive.  In 
Gnu&Linux you can have the users data&settings all neatly on one drive while the 
Operating System is on another.  Dividing things up more than that is just 
confusing tho!  


Err, are we going off-topic?
Regards from
Tom :)




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From: Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum@gmail.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Fri, 26 August, 2011 11:11:34
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Basic question for new LibreOffice 
user...

2011/8/25 Twayne <TWAYNE@twaynesdomain.com>:
> In news:CADo7T4ehM-8YwizE5SDCP=C=53C22FBksN=F3Rags6Z3n6jcvg@mail.gmail.com,
> Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum@gmail.com> typed:
> > 2011/8/25 webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
> > <webmaster@krackedpress.com>:
> > > Found 3.3.3 solved most of my issues that 3.3.2 had.
> > >
> > > The rule is if you back up everything, then you will
> > > crash when you update the most needed files just before
> > > your next schedules back up procedure.
> > >
> > > My problem is backing up a 1TB and a 2TB internal drive
> > > and a 1TB external drive. B The unlimited backup
> > > services do not have Linux applications, just Windows
> > > and Mac. B I run Ubuntu, and its standard backup service
> > > would cost too much. B Also my upload speed for my Cable
> > > modem service would take over a month to upload all my
> > > data - about double the max. dial-up upload speed but
> > > 10MB+ download speed. B So any online backup service is
> > > out for my needs.
> >
> > But you can always backup to external drives, right? You
> > just need to
> > buy a couple of really big onesb&
>
> Backups are indeed important in that you can re-create your whole computer
> drive in a half hour or so depending, instead of two days plus or renstallng
> and resetting all the customzations. Wth a good backup, it's a couple
> keyclicks & wait a half hour or so per disk.
>
> OR, back up to DVDs every few months or whenever you've make more changes
> that you could not re-create manually and they're important to you. Normally
> I back up to DVD (DL, actually) every month and if there are new, important
> files, back whenever you've created those. Then another person and I trade
> backups every couple months just to have something off-site. The DVDs only
> come in handy a couple times, but saved a LOT of grief and work. I backup C
> by itself, then the data drves by themselves.
>   At the same time I do any recovery, I first remove any encryption,
> restore, and then re-encrypt and re-export the keys to go with it.
>
> HTH,
>
> Twayne`

Personally I don't use CD/DVD because every time I need them to
recover something, some of the information on them is corrupted
anyway. Maybe it's just me or maybe I don't buy media that is
expensive enough, but that's my experience anyway. But that's me.
Everything is better than not doing any backups at all.


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ

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