Backups Next: On the importance of Up: Linux System Administrators' Guide Previous: Disabling a user temporarilyBackups  Hardware is indeterministically reliable.Software is deterministically unreliable.People are indeterministically unreliable.Nature is deterministically reliable.This chapter explains about why, how, and when to make backups, and how to restore things from backups. On the importance of being backed upSelecting the backup mediumSelecting the backup toolSimple backupsMaking backups with tarRestoring files with tarMultilevel backupsWhat to back upCompressed backupsLars WirzeniusSat Nov 15 02:32:11 EET 1997