On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:11:18 -0700 (PDT) Joe Pruett <[email protected]> dijo:
> > The problem is, as Keith suspected, that rdiff-backup (or its GUI, > > pybackpack), helpfully creates folders if it doesn't see them. Worse, > > if the folder already exists it assumes I wouldn't want to overwrite > > it, and creates a copy of the folder someplace else. > > > > Furthermore, if I run rdiff-backup (via the GUI) as jjj it throws up > > massive error messages about files it doesn't have permission to copy. > > This is when I use it for a full system backup. If I just back up ~/ I > > get only one error message - the .gvfs file. Apparently it takes god > > powers to do anything with .gvfs, because even root can't touch it. I > > haven't figure that one out yet. > > However, at this point I am considering tossing rdiff-backup in the > > bin. Not only does it seem to create folders when and where it should > > not, but somehow when it filled my disk it nuked my Nautilus bookmarks > > file, and reset half of my Gnome settings. Moreover, the system is > > unusable when it is running because it takes every ounce of CPU power. > > I could live with the latter problem, but the bugs are just > > unacceptable. > gvfs is a fuse (user land file server) based thing, so it is kind of like > talking nfs to a local process. that process can deny anyone it feels > like, root has no special powers. > > the settings being eaten is a side effect of the full disk, not rdiff > itself. most likely nautilus has some auto-save timer going off and > doesn't check result codes well enough, so it thinks it has written a new > copy of bookmarks, etc (but really failed from lack of disk), then renames > it to be the real copy. boom, no more settings. Thanks for the explanations, which make sense. And I now have a really safe copy of .gtk-bookmarks. And I figured out where the Nautilus desktop settings are so if it reconfigures the desktop I can restore things quickly and easily. And I wrote up the instructions and saved them in my Cheat_Sheet.txt file. Fixing things takes only a few minutes. Figuring out how can take hours. I suspect part of the problem is the pybackpack GUI for rdiff-backup. Before tossing out rdiff-backup completely I'm going to see if dumbass me can learn how to use it from the command line. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
