data leads a life of its own.

Backups. by Jamie “Shut up. I know things. You will listen to me. Do it anyway.” Zawinski » http://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html

block by block or http://www.linux-backup.net/

rsync -avz -e ssh [user@host:path] [user@host:path]

or

using dvd-/+R on liquid.local to make mac/linux compatible backups to dvd

# mkisofs -r -apple -mac-name -o '/tmp/[image].img' /path/to/stuff 
# dvdrecord -dev=/dev/hdb -dao -overburn /tmp/[image].img

unison

seems to work well, is a syncroniser which propogates changes in both directions, using the same algorithm as rsync.

download/about/etc http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison

manual > http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/manual.html

usage

eg. unison a.tmp ssh:user@remote.hostabsolute/path/to/a.tmp

carbon copy cloner, and/or psync does most of it. ,. http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

formats

CDR / DVD / etc+

using DV tape

• http://www.s.netic.de/gfiala/dvbackup.html
• http://www.xs4all.nl/~phosphor/
• http://dvbackup.sourceforge.net/
• http://www.schirmacher.de/

distributed

http://www.cleversafe.org/

[NOTE: should include disk recovery notes, and using dd, ddrescue, testdisk and duplicity – nik gaffney]