[ale] Laptop backup recommendations

[Barry Hawkins]

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Yu, Jerry wrote:
| per your spec, I am an admin, have used tar, here is why I like it,
| 1) tar can do all you wanted to do, and it is universal
| 2) I used tar for full server backup, disaster recovery, bare-metal
replication, partial restoration on i386 platform.
[...]
Jerry,
~    If I were able to do that stuff with tar, I would be pretty psyched.
~ I am very comfortable with tar for source code management stuff, but
with not being an admin, I guess I haven't tapped into its deeper potential.
~    Could you give a short description of using tar for partial
restoration?  Individual file/directory restore is one of my largest
concerns.

Thanks much,
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Barry Hawkins
All Things Computed
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weblog: www.yepthatsme.com

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