how do i backup all my data and restore?

[David Jackson]

> At 09:52 1/12/2004, you wrote:
>>I use "cp -a" [...] doesn't offer any assurance that the files
>>were copied correctly.  If there are disk errors (bad sectors, etc) it
>>is possible to end up with corrupted files.  I've had this happen about
>>10 times in the past 5 years.  It was always caused by bad disks or poor
>>connections.  I always try to verify the copy before I destroy the
>>original.  That may be difficult in your case.
>
> So instead, use "rsync -av" or even check out the checksumming options for
> rsync. Very powerful, good mojo.

You might also want to take a look at the "Linux Crash HOWTO":
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Crash-HOWTO/index.html


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