[H-GEN] Backup strategies panel

[Matthew]

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a few interesting things google, linuxdocs and the man pages found for me
this morning....
[less advanced practical discussion below....]

the linuxdoc HOWTO's
Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html    [refresh on bash programming, simple backup
scripts]

For those 'oops' occasions....
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html
[I have to try this!!!]

http://www.linux-backup.net/
a small range of stuff including
 - simple backup scripts
 - crontab backup routines. (tho a recent post on this thread explained why
these are potentially a false sense of security!)

 I liked the
dpkg --get-selections * > /mnt/floppy/backup.pkg.ls
or for the redhat ppl
rpm -qa > /mnt/floppy/installed_rpm_list.txt
[tho these will not include packages installed from tar.gz's]


a mini backup faq (not yet into the linuxdoc howto's)
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html

the ever useful man pages for
dump
cpio
restore

rsync (getting a bit away from the normal backups most of us need for
desktops/small lans... ?)


I noticed a housekeeping type comment in the Multi-Disk-HOWTO-13.html
"When your system is about to fill up it is about time to check and prune old
logging messages as well as hunt down core files. Proper use of ulimit in
global shell settings can help saving you
from having core files littered around the system. "

other suggestions?


(I dont claim to have familiarity with these tools or backup processes, at
the deep end of the learning curve)


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