[haiku] Re: Backup strategy for Haiku productive systems

  • From: David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:18:10 +1000

On 27 April 2010 17:47, beos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <beos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> since I wanted to start using my Haiku install for day-to-day stuff, I'd
> like to know what your backup
> strategy is, having Haiku's instabilities and potential filesystem bugs in
> mind.
> Would it be the best to zip the personal data and copy it to another Haiku
> partition? Or better copy it to a BeOS-generated BFS partition? To a FAT
> partition? Or should I FTP it to my desktop machine to not let Haiku's BFS
> write onto the backup partition directly? How often do you make backups of
> your Haiku data?
>
> What do you suggest, how do you do it?

Anything that is not put into SVN is zipped and ftp'ed to my NAS drive

I might be able to mount the NAS drive from Haiku now though, have not tried it.

-- 
Cheers
David

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