Articles tagged with "backup"

1. genbackup

   This shell-script makes a backup (with the tar program) of the directory from which it is called, with all its …

2. Automated local backups

   These days it is commonplace to have hardware or software RAID1, even in common PCs. In previous machines I’ve …

3. Should system backups be compressed?

   Every now and then I make backups of my FreeBSD system’s filesystems with the venerable dump program. This is …

4. Backups

   People usually have to learn the hard way that backups are important. For people not familiar with computers it takes time to appreciate the nature of digital data. Digital data is easy and cheap to create and copy, but equally easy to destroy and lose! It is very easy to accidentally delete files.