Thursday, January 13 2005 @ 06:53 PM EST Contributed by: glosser
The Newsforge presents this tutorial on backing up data using KDar, a KDE app.
A hard drive crash over the holidays left me scrambling to get back to a productive desktop as quickly as possible. Luckily, I had my /home partition on a separate drive, so I didn't lose precious email, stories, research, and pictures. But it did get me thinking about my lack of preparedness. Where was the back-up system I've talked about for years, but never acquired? This is the tale of how I rectified that glaring omission, and built myself a personal back-up system using inexpensive parts and free software.
The hardware
My desktop machine includes three IDE drives and an ATAPI CD-ROM drive. I have Debian installed on hda, SUSE on hdc, and my /home directory on hdd. Backing up directly to CD would be too slow and too cumbersome for me, so the first thing I needed was some new hardware.
