Three Wise Men

The importance of backups? It actually differs from case to case, but it seems that in the end 95% of the people do not know how important backups are until their hard drive dies and their data is gone. In the past ten days I had three people complaining about losing their data. Two hard drive failures and one accidental Shift-Delete & Click Yes without reading the warning message. Backing up on Linux is a pain if you are not at least demigod of Linux administration. Linux really lacks a simple backup solution for regular users.

Read on if you want to know more on how to perform simple backup in Linux, what backups are and how to handle them.