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backup
I think the best distro for usability is SuSE 9.2. It is phenomenal and I use a lot of stuff in it. it's easy to install stuff into too. I actually wanted a program it didn't have. It comes with about a thousand programs. Now for your backup problem, here's basically how you do it. I can't explain in every detail or it would take up more space than I have here. Here is the basic jist. you need netcat, and dd. All distros, except f***ed up ones, come with dd. Netcat, not so often. So let me tell you some things to make you more self sufficient with linux. You can dl source from http colon slash slash sourceforge dot net. You go there and do a search. You install from source by typing, and don't actually type the <> characters, <gunzip {.tar.gz file}> or <bunzip2 {.tar.bz2 file}> next <tar -xvf {resulting tar file}> next <cd {directory named after the .tar file}> next <./configure> next <make> next <make install>. If you want to remove an application made from source, type <make clean> from the directory named after the .tar file. tar stands for "Tape ARchive", but it is used for hard drive files, too. After you install netcat, if it is in SuSE, type <ldconfig> next <SuSEconfig> that's SuSE, not suse. Then type <man netcat> and the manual for netcat will come up and you can read it to find out how it works. Then read the dd man page. Now you have to pipe the 2 commands, dd and netcat, together. Here is what that command looks like <dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/network drive your backin up to/directory name/backup file name bs=8192 conv=notrunc,noerror | netcat [switches] {IP address you want to send the backup to}> OK, so you type that command in a text editor, but in the first line of the file type <#!/bin/bash> so the OS knows it is a shell script. Then change the permissions on the file so everyone who needs to can run it and put it in the /bin directory. now open Kcron and add the job of running that shell script you made to cron. It should take you about 4 hours. If it takes less, I owe you. :-)
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