Hello again,
To answer both of your questions, and add an extra level of paranoia
about backups :-), I would do the restores as you suggest, but
restore into a completely different directory. Then if all goes
well, you can just copy those files over into your home directory;
and if it doesn't, you haven't messed up anything.
But if you're less paranoid, you should be able to simply do your
second example there, on top of your existing files, and it should
work fine. Actually, you could do both and compare the two just to
make sure.
Eric
On Dec 19, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Martin Fisher wrote:
G'day again Eric
Thank you, and I believe I have a greater understanding now. Therefore
when my laptop is repaired, I can, as I understand it, attach the usb
drive that has my backup and use, for example,
rdiff-backup -r
now /media/ext32backup/home/martin/Documents /home/martin/Documents
where the first path is the backup and the latter is the destination.
Correct?
As I have four folders in /home/martin that are being backed up and
must
be restored (Desktop, Documents, Pictures, Music) perhaps I could
simply
do
rdiff-backup -r now /media/ext32backup/home/martin /home/martin
Yes?
Finally a subsidiary question. The repaired laptop will already have
some of the files that I am going to restore, but not all. I could
clean
out my home folder before doing restore, or I could do the restore on
top of what is already there. Would it make a difference?
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