[PLUG] A survey of backup philosophies/methods?

[Ben Koenig]

You seem to be looking for a reliable work space, not a backup. Low-level
OS hacking requires a scratch system isolated from the rest of the world.


If your plan is to learn about the "guts of Linux" then at some point you
will peel away at the subsystems used for networking. It would be a shame
if - in the name of education - you somehow broke your network config and
were unable to reach out to PLUG for help.


For you, a reasonable backup may be nothing more than a solid, well-built
computer running a long-term support OS. Maybe throw in a basic RAID1 just
for giggles.




On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 8:27 AM Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> wrote:

> On 12/22/2018 06:27 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > For years I've told others to have backups.
>
> In a way THAT is the source of my confusion.
> The others owned a computer to accomplish a specific task.
> Therefore it was clear "Why backup?"
>
> I however have essentially a self education project - "How to do an
> ideal install". The deliverable, so to speak, is some understanding of
> the guts of Linux. Data loss would be more an inconvenience than a
> disaster. The data might be compared to notes accumulated when writing a
> paper. Since the majority of the content is from archived mailing lists
> an appropriate web search could retrieve most of it. I would lose my
> indexes primarily. I think I know how to prioritize. It will have a side
> benefit of helping me better organize things.
>
>
>
> > My primary machine just went to the shop which reminded me I should be
> > more organized and current myself.
> >
> > Any recommended survey articles?
> >
> > TIA
> >
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