From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 5 14:51:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9869637BCCE for ; Fri, 5 May 2000 14:51:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA58493; Fri, 5 May 2000 16:51:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 16:51:17 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Vincent Poy Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard Disk Data Recovery In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 5 May 2000, Vincent Poy wrote: > On Fri, 5 May 2000, David Scheidt wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 May 2000, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > > > > Depends. On a desktop, you can easily clone the drives. On a > > > notebook, how do you clone the drives or do images to CDs without taking > > > the drive out and connecting it to a desktop? > > > > rdump? > > Wouldn't that only work if the machine was connected to the > network? Yeah, there's that. Laptops are a problem to keep backup up. I think the best solution is not to have much on them. If all you have is real data, you can backup to floppy. There isn't 2 megs of real data on my laptop most of the time. I leave a copy of mail on a server, and back up the base configuration, so the only thing I have to worry about is whatever I am working on. That fits handly on a floppy, or I can copy it some other machine the next time I am on a network. A couple of megs doesn't take that long to move over even a failrlyh slow modem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message