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Chapter 12. Backups

Table of Contents

12.1. On the importance of being backed up

12.2. Selecting the backup medium

12.3. Selecting the backup tool

12.4. Simple backups

12.4.1. Making backups with tar
12.4.2. Restoring files with tar

12.5. Multilevel backups

12.6. What to back up

12.7. Compressed backups

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.

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