With vacation time on my hands, I finally got around to setting up some backups for my Linux machine. Things are evolving here, and there's probably now more important stuff on it than any of our other computers. I created a /backup directory in the root, and mounted a spare 150 GB drive there, so as to put all my backups on a different device, in case of a complete system failure of some kind.
I used the Backup feature in YaST, created a full systsem backup to use weekly, and a /home backup to run each night at midnight. I figured I could also run the full backup at odd times, e.g., if I've just made a lot of software changes, or installed a lot of critical updates. I tested both, and found them to be working as expected, if started manually. I went to bed last night expecting to find a second versioned copy of the /home backup in my /backup directory, but it wasn't there this morning. Finally, my question: do I need to do something else to enable these scheduled backups? There was nothing obvious on the pages where I set up the profiles and entered the parameters for automatic backups. I assumed that YaST would schedule the tasks for me, based on the day/time information I provided. What am I missing? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
