[ale] Happy Happy Backups day

[Bruce Griffis]

Got my Mandrake PC back up and working again, with all user directories 
restored and Samba working. Thank goodness for fledgling attempts at backups. 
Even had backups for my /mnt/windows/My\ Documents folder. Took backups of 
specific directories and copied them via FTP to a second PC. Should have 
taken a complete backup. Urgh.

Anyway - happily chugging away on a full backup, then will FTP it (binary?) to 
my PC with a CD-R drive and back it up. Do you guys go for once a month full 
backups, and then incrementals for home use? Or just a full backup after 
major changes? As a Windows user, I'd normally just lose and re-install 
everything - but the reconfiguring and tweaking takes too much time! Plus, 
I'd rather not lose data.

Maybe I ought to do what James said and stop being so cheap - and pick up a 
portable IDE drive. 

Time to back away from the keyboard. My warped mind is revolving around 
SpamAssasin and f-prot to keep spam and viri out of my mailbox. Anyone 
recommend a good "how-to" while I slowly ease up on the keyboard?
Bruce

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