[mdlug] Network backup options

[R Kannan]

Thanks to everyone who offered help on this thread.

I used tar as suggested by Carl and backed up all my partitions.
However, while backing up '/', tar complained about files under 'proc'
(may be I don't need to back them up at all)  and I had to use
'--ignore-failed-read' to make that work. I am hoping that did not cause
any harm. The compressed files are about half the size and I could back
them up on DVDs.

The harddrive on my desktop seemed to have stabilized after 'fsck'ing
the partitions but I guess I cannot take any chances. I will use the
scripts that I have generated to do future backups often till I install
a replacement drive.


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