The Importance of Backups Presentation

Learning about Linux
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This is a presentation I’ve given a couple of times now for the LUG on the importance of Backing Up your data, and some techniques and tools for doing it.

Hope it’s helpful to you. TheImportanceofBackups.odp (365.3 KB)

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@tbaugh The presentation is attached in the main post above. Hope it helps, and Merry Christmas.

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Thank you, I have a 4TB drive that SMART status reports as failing. I wonder what the fastest way to backup would be.

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@hornedfrog definitely rsync for speed. If you find the copy corrupted, you’ll want to move to dd.

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Thank you. I will try this.