Chapter 33. Got Backup?
You meet the nicest people at the command line: no posturing, no nonsense, just a “get the job done” mentality that seems to get lost when the focus moves away from real functionality to making pretty windows.
This chapter will introduce you to one of those nice people you can meet at the CLI, and take a look at a command-line tool for the most fundamental—and the most overlooked—part of personal computing: making backups.
Quick. When is the last time you backed up your system? Unless you are a system administrator by trade, I bet 95% of you haven’t done so recently.
Backups Are Best Done Before a Crash
If you suffer a hard drive crash, you stand to lose all your recent email, work, notes, photos, bookmarks, and whatever. One ...
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