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D. Both, C. BulkaLinux for Small Business Ownershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8264-9_14

14. Backups

David Both1   and Cyndi Bulka1
(1)
Raleigh, NC, USA
 

Objectives

After reading this chapter, you will be able to
  • State at least three reasons why you should make backups

  • Describe what constitutes a good backup

  • Decide what needs to be backed up

  • Select the best backup medium for today’s high-capacity systems

  • Configure a backup tool, rsbu, written by one of the authors

  • Configure your computer to use rsbu for backups

  • Create your first backup

  • Test restoring a file from the backup to verify that it works as expected

Introduction

I’m about to explain in detail how to configure ...

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