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posted by [personal profile] pmsumner at 06:46pm on 13/01/2006
Backup done and tar Maildir | gzip > pmsumner.email.tar.gz done, YaST now running, albeit VERY slowly. My poor PIII 550 really struggles to run the graphical setup tool.

Let's see how well this works. *supresses a mad manic giggle*
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posted by [identity profile] albatros.livejournal.com at 07:57am on 14/01/2006
Thanks for the nudge. My external HD broke after 2 months (power supply is currently being returned, I hope), so I'd not done a laptop backup for about 3 weeks.

Anyhoo, I have WINRAR configured to do the job for me (I have used 7-zip, which is equally competent at doing the job, but RAR offers an option to save a shortcut that captures the current settings - easily activated).
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posted by [identity profile] phil99.livejournal.com at 12:49pm on 14/01/2006
I'm useless, I only do a backup about once a month, maybe every 2 if I'm more honest :) I use Mondo Archive to do the job, seems to do a pretty good job.
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posted by [identity profile] albatros.livejournal.com at 08:15am on 15/01/2006
Yeah, I'm usually quite good; once every two days, at the end of a working day, done in a few minutes. I've just been a bit lazy, in that I've said to myself "The drive isn't there, can't do backup." In truth, I should just have changed the path to the network drive.

Just a suggestion, but perhaps give your backup script an easy name, so that you can activate it just before you finish a session, and/or add it to a 'backup and shutdown' script, etc.
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posted by [identity profile] phil99.livejournal.com at 02:01pm on 15/01/2006
I have considered regular backups before like that, but I've very little need to do anything serious backup-wise. The only things that change on my server are the email, and occasional config changes. I don't store anything on there other than pics/webpages which don't change and I have these on old backups anyhow.

My laptop is basically a client and the "my documents"/mozilla profiles folders get backed up to a memory stick :) Everything else is expendable!
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posted by [identity profile] albatros.livejournal.com at 07:54am on 16/01/2006
Ah, good :o)
I tend to keep only a few current projects on the laptop, and everything else in 'archive' elsewhere.
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