discuss: Rewriting old documents
Subject:
Re: Rewriting old documents
From:
"J. S. Evans" ####@####.####
Date:
25 Feb 2016 06:38:37 +0000
Message-Id: <56CEA191.1000004@email.cz>
That's kind of the idea that I have right now.
This is my outline at the moment is: 1. How to gather and compress your
files and what files you should back up. 2. How and where to send files
(i.e. physical media, cloud storage, NAS) 3. How to recover files. I'll
also touch on how to make images of VM's in KVM and VirtualBox that can
be backed up and recovered also. I considered writing about LVM images,
making VM images of entire systems, backing up with tools like
NetBackup, etc. but I think those topics might be better for future
HOWTO's as they would make this one too broad in scope. I really want to
focus on file-level backups for newbies at this point.
Jason
On 24.2.2016 14:37, ####@####.#### wrote:
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: "J. S. Evans" ####@####.####
>> Date: 2/24/2016 6:15 AM (GMT-05:00)
>> To: ####@####.####
>> Subject: Rewriting old documents
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> What's the best way to take over an old document. I'd like to do a
>> complete re-write of ''Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO''. Would
>> it be better to write an entirely new document while giving attribution to
>> the original document and it's owner or edit the existing document and
>> wiping out huge amounts of existing text that is no longer viable today
>> (e.g. backing up with zip drives, etc.)?
> I would like to see the document written so that there were what I'll call
> high level and (optionally) low level instructions. In the case of backing up
> with zip drives, I'd suggest (unless the document title is something like
> "Backing up with Zip Drives") that first general instructions be given that
> would apply to backing up on (almost?) any local device, followed by sections
> (if necessary / appropriate) to backing up with zip drives, external USB
> drives, ...
>
> Among other advantages, then, in the future, the document could be updated
> (when zip drives are obsolete, which I suppose they are ;-), the section on
> zip drives could be deleted (although I might suggest leaving a statement in
> the document under the zip drive heading saying something like "section
> removed, last version was published in version x.y..z of this document which
> is available in the archives of LDP".
>
> And, new devices would be added new sections.
>
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