[ale] Laptop backup recommendations

[Christopher Fowler]

Tar for source code management only works when you have one developer. 
Any more and you'll step on each others toes.


On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 11:02, Barry Hawkins wrote:
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> Yu, Jerry wrote:
> | per your spec, I am an admin, have used tar, here is why I like it,
> | 1) tar can do all you wanted to do, and it is universal
> | 2) I used tar for full server backup, disaster recovery, bare-metal
> replication, partial restoration on i386 platform.
> [...]
> Jerry,
> ~    If I were able to do that stuff with tar, I would be pretty psyched.
> ~ I am very comfortable with tar for source code management stuff, but
> with not being an admin, I guess I haven't tapped into its deeper potential.
> ~    Could you give a short description of using tar for partial
> restoration?  Individual file/directory restore is one of my largest
> concerns.
> 
> Thanks much,
> - --
> Barry Hawkins
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