Eric Thanks again, and this is clear now. Hopefully I will soon have the chance to try it out.
Martin On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 11:56 -0500, Eric Jensen wrote: > 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? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > � -- Dr Martin Fisher Editor, Oryx - The International Journal of Conservation Fauna & Flora International, 4th Floor, Jupiter House Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2JD, UK e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +44 (0)20 81238513 skype martin_pescador Oryx online http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=ORX Instructions for Contributors http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayMoreInfo?jid=ORX&type=ifc Online submissions http://www.epress.ac.uk/oryx/webforms/author.php Personal subscriptions http://www.fauna-flora.org/membership.php _______________________________________________ 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
