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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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