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 (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 (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 rsync -av --rsh="ssh" sourcedir destdir. Other options you might like to consider on rsync(1) command line are -l which keeps symlinks intact, -z which compresses the data (useful over slow links), and --delete 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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