On 06/10/2005, at 19:28, Wiebe Cazemier wrote: > Annoying mailinglist... It should set a reply-address so that replies go to > the > list. This one is.
Thank you, I'm sorry I missed that on the previous reply. >> I'm not sure why rdiff-backup thinks it is unable to handle access control lists, >> since posix1e.so seems to be in the right place? >You are sure you have ACL's? If so, perhaps it has something to do with it being >a LVM. I don't have much experience with ACL's, so I can't help there. >I am kind of confused about the errors you're getting BTW. It's not very clear >which error, if any, is the fatal error. They're most warnings and ingored errors. >When you backup to a non-FAT32 filesystem, what happens then? I'm not certain; I don't have a non-FAT32 filesystem to backup to (I guess I could use spare space in the same volume, if rdiff-backup isn't going to be confused by that - in fact, the main disk needs to be repartitioned, which would solve that problem, but I'm not game to do that until I have it properly backed up - catch 22. > Restoring an application by copying the files from /bin etc is not a good > idea. > You need to install software through the package manager, or you won't be able > to keep track of what is installed. When just copying files, you end up with a > system you have to reïnstall eventually. > Backing up to another HD poses the same kinds of problem mentioned earlier. > When > using "cp", make sure you use "-a" to keep all the properties intact. And, > when > restoring, don't restore parts of the backup into an existing system, for the > same maintainability issue as mentioned above. > If you do want to make system backups to removable media in the future, I > recommend Dar (http://dar.linux.free.fr/). It provides everthing you can think > of when doing backups. > Also, you might want to put RAID1 in your computer. Not really hard to do, > with > Linux software RAID. Software RAID is better than those RAID controllers on > mainboards BTW. So, unless you have a real hardware RAID card, use software. Thanks for all the excellent advice - far more than the question I was originally asking, and all valuable Best Wishes Bob McKay _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
