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!!! ''Back up your data''

Home user:
    Write 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).

See also:
* TarNotes for information on backing up large amounts of data to more than one tape with tar(1)
* [Arkeia] and ArkeiaNotes
* BackupExec and BackupExecNotes
* [Linux Ext2fs Undeletion mini-HOWTO | http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html] (although you don't need to since you have good backups, right?)
* rsync(1) e.g. To copy to another machine/partition etc you can do <tt> rsync -av --rsh="ssh" sourcedir destdir</tt>. Other options you might like to consider on rsync(1) command line are <tt>-l</tt> which keeps symlinks intact, <tt>-z</tt> which compresses the data (useful over slow links), and <tt>--delete</tt> which deletes files which exist on the destination but not the source (use with caution!!)
* rdiff-backup(1) - Python program to do differential backups using the rdiff command (uses the rsync protocol).
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