July 2005
Beginner
720 pages
18h 15m
English
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Chapter 35. Backups, Troubleshooting, and Rescue
What You'll Learn in This Chapter:
How to back up your data, either on magnetic tape or removable media
How to automate backups using shell scripts and the cron service
How to use the Fedora Core 4 rescue system
In this last chapter, you learn how to deal with some of the tedious chores of computing life: making backups of your valuable data, restoring from these backups, and knowing just when to do either. Although discussions of backing up or restoring data and performing rescue operations often get lost in the shuffle of more immediately useful topics, you should pay as much—or perhaps ...