[huskerlug] Re: Backups

I don't mean to be picky, but discussing back up options in Windows seems
to be a little off topic for the list.

> I use a program called SecondCopy to do automatic backups of my volatile
> da= ta automatically to a ZIP disk and copy all non-volatile stuff to CD
> using = a program called CopyTo which allows me to automate most of it.
> The problem=
>  is that programs scatter setting and INI files all over the hard disk
> and =
> I don't know what's important and what's not. I usually have at least
> two c= opies of important stuff, with archives going back a year or so.
> The proble= m is not how to do the backup but what to backup.
>
> You can use the archive bit to backup files that have changed, but that
> wil= l get you way more junk than stuff that you really need to backup.
> I suppos= e that I know how to find the stuff that needs to be backed up
> by using dat= e searches, but it's just a mess, and most of that is M$
> fault for having p= oor policies and not enforcing the ones that they do
> have. Don't even get m= e started on the stupid installation tricks they
> pull with their software. = --gk
>
>>      You need to use Nero for Windows and Amanda for Unix for backing
>> up, the latter may be used on your Windows files from Linux, I'm not
>> sure about that, there's even some stuff in KDE you could use, but I
>> haven't b=
> ack
>> up anything for months --- I'll regret it!  ---Jim
>>
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