On Thursday March 4 2010 00:59:03 Mike McCarty wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > IMO > > > > The way to do what you want is... > > Another approach, which sometimes works, is to use a separate > partition for /home, /usr/local, and /opt, and possibly /var, > where you keep all your "non system" stuff, and only make a > full backup of the system part, and revert only that. > > Personally, I think full backups from time to time, stored > off site, are a good idea, anyway. > > Mike thanks for the advice I agree and I ran for some time BackinTime every night doing full backup but apparently it is not so clear how to restore your full backup... if only there was a way to do such snapshots automatically without dealing with all the mounting and run levels and you know... not ordinary user stuff... anyway, lesson learned. thanks again. YB. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
