Hi Terry, > I realised that in order to work, I had to install cifs-utils
Yes, that package allows mount(8) to handle the ‘-t cifs’ giving the filesystem's type. > > A restore doesn't get put over the top of the current; it needs > > to sit underneath. That's can't be done so you start from > > zero, add the restore, add current. > > Yes. As I said at the time, I didn't really understand this bit. > I know what I have to do, but what did you mean by 'sit underneath'? Every backup of /home/terry is a snapshot in time. The mechanism may consist of full backups or incremental ones, but that's an implementation detail; logically, a new snapshot has been made. You current, live /home/terry is newer than any snapshot. Logging in as terry2 stops /home/terry being live, but it's still more current than any snapshot. - If you restore an old snapshot over the current /home/terry, you are replaying time out of order giving a bit of a mishmash. - Whereas the snapshot alone might be good enough if it's recent. - If not, you can judiciously take bits from the current one to move the snapshot-based /home/terry forward in time. -- Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2026-10-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... https://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:[email protected]
