On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Jim Beckett wrote:

> * I can't imagine why you would want to exclude the dot-files, though. It
> seems like a recipe for disaster if a newbie (like me) needed to restore
> from backup, and didn't realize that they had not backed-up their
> personalized configuration settings (especially the .VirtualBox
> directory).

   One day. a long time ago, I accidently deleted all the dot-files in my
home directory. Not only are there a many such files, but the system gets
really upset when they're gone.

   I grabbed the latest full backup tape and restored them all (after working
around the missing files that BRU wanted to see). Major PITA, but an avoided
disaster.

Rich
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