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Chapter 9. Fundamental Backup Techniques
Accidents will happen sooner or later. In this chapter, we'll discuss how to get data to a safe place using other hosts, floppy disks, CD-ROMs and tapes. We will also discuss the most popular compressing and archiving commands.
Upon completion of this chapter, you will know how to:
♦ Make, query and unpack file archives
♦ Handle floppy disks and make a boot disk for your system
♦ Write CD-ROMs
♦ Make incremental backups
9.1. Introduction9.1.1. Preparing your data9.2. Moving your data to a backup device9.2.1. Making a copy on a floppy disk9.2.2. Making a copy with a CD-writer9.2.3. Backups on/from jazz drives, USB devices and other removables9.2.4. Backing up data using a tape device9.2.5. Tools from your distribution9.3. Using rsync9.3.1. Introduction9.3.2. An example: rsync to a USB storage device9.4. Encryption9.4.1. General remarks9.4.2. Generate a key9.4.3. About your key9.4.4. Encrypt data9.4.5. Decrypting files9.5. Summary9.6. Exercises