On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:46:16 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo:
>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. I was going to give it a shot. I have 145 GB total to back up, and my backup disk has over 300 GB available, so if it didn't work or I can't figure out how to restore, I could just nuke it and go back to rdiff-backup. But after reading the documentation again I think it is not for me. I still can't figure out what Back in Time means by a "snapshot." I know the difference between "full" and "incremental," and I understand (and appreciate) the way rdiff-backup makes an incremental that looks like a full backup by creating links to the previous full backup. With rdiff-backup you can restore the latest version of a file, or any of the older versions. The Back in Time documentation leads me to believe it does the same thing. Thanks to Jim for the explanation of what the preconfigured exclude settings mean. I guess I could just nuke them and add my own. I am still surprised that it did not automatically exclude /proc, /media, /sys and /tmp. After reading the documentation again I conclude that the developers assumed that the user would only back up their ~/ folder. I recall once a long time ago accidentally deleting /bin, so I want the whole filesystem. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
