• 9.1. Introduction
• 9.2. Moving your data to a backup device
  • 9.2.1. Making a copy on a floppy disk
  • 9.2.2. Making a copy with a CD-writer
  • 9.2.3. Backups on/from jazz drives, USB devices and such
  • 9.2.4. Backing up data using a tape device
  • 9.2.5. Tools from your distribution
• 9.3. Using rsync
  • 9.3.1. Introduction
  • 9.3.2. An example - rsync to a USB storage device
• 9.4. Encryption
  • 9.4.1. General remarks
  • 9.4.2. Generate a key
  • 9.4.3. About your key
  • 9.4.4. Encrypt data
  • 9.4.5. Decrypting files
• 9.5. Summary
• 9.6. Exercises

Accidents will happen sooner or later. In this chapter, we'll discuss how to get data to a safe place using other hosts, floppy disks, CD-ROMs and tapes. We will also discuss the most popular compressing and archiving commands.

Upon completion of this chapter, you will know how to:

• Make, query and unpack file archives
• Handle floppy disks and make a boot disk for your system
• Write CD-ROMs
• Make incremental backups
• Create Java archives
• Find documentation to use other backup devices and programs
• Encrypt your data

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