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!!! ''Back up your data''
Home user:
- Write a script that copies it off onto another machine.
+ Write or acquire
a script that copies it off onto another machine.
Enterprise server:
Buy a tape drive and consider using a good commercial backup program or writing some ''really good'' scripts.
(P.S. __''Back up your data.''__) Otherwise you might end up like [this guy | http://www.wlug.org.nz/archive/sounds/canonhelpdesk.mp3] (warning: contains bad words).
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+An excellent program for data backup is [rsnapshot|http://www.rsnapshot.org/], which lets you keep multiple days of backups at only slightly more space usage than a single day, due to only keeping one copy of each file, and copies of any changed files.
See also:
* TarNotes for information on backing up large amounts of data to more than one tape with tar(1)
* [Arkeia] and ArkeiaNotes
