On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 17:29 -0500, William Case wrote: > What I had been doing was quite simple. Rather than doing a compressed > backup, I had just been using a small rsync script to copy my files > and/or changes to my backup partition. I have a big enough hard drive > with lots of room. I found that I seldom had need of a restore, but on > several occasions it was helpful to just go to the /backup partition and > directly look at what I had used, or configured before. Occasionally I > would have need to copy a data file back to my /home partition. > > When I came to burning the new disk I wanted to be able to do the same. > It is very unlikely that on my small system, I would need to restore a > file or directory from two or three Fedora versions ago. But I might > like to look at what I did with some file back then. If it was a root > file I would switch to root and look at a burned file from there. So I > wasn't trying to burn a backed up file per se but rather a copied file. > That shouldn't have been a problem I would have thought, unless having > used rsync with accumulated changes makes a difference. In that case, you may as well chown yourself:yourself all the copies before putting them on a disc. And if you need to discover who should own a file that you're trying to fix up, you can rpm query the current package. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- 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
