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Backing Up is Hard to Do?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the especially-if-you're-lazy dept.

Joe Barr writes "NewsForge is running a story this morning on a personal hardware/software backup solution for your Linux desktop (NewsForge is owned by Slashdot's parent OSTG). The solution doesn't require a SCSI controller, or tape drive, or the ability to grok a scripting language or archiving tool to work, either. It's based on point-and-click free software. Plus it includes a dead-parrot joke by Linus Torvalds."

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  1. Backup painful? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Backing up isn't painful, restoring is.

  2. Re:super compression by Steffan · · Score: 5, Funny
    I just tried that, where did it backup my file to? I can't find them.
    That's easy, just use:
    cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda
    to get all of the zeros back. (The compression used takes care of all of the ones for you).
  3. KDar? by MonkeyCookie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that some kind of sense that allows you to pick out other KDE users in a crowd?