Re: accident: "rm core *"

From: Juha Siltala (jsiltala_at_gmx.net)
Date: 10/02/04 

Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 09:19:19 GMT

On 2004-10-02, Juhan Leemet <juhan@logicognosis.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 10:32:30 +0000, Juha Siltala wrote:

>> Personally, I like Reoback: http://reoback.sourceforge.net/ . I do backups

> I was going to setup reoback and immediately ran into a problem: I want to
> put my backups on a network disk, but root does not have permission to
> read my files (e.g. .kde), and I don't have permissions to do a mount.
> Hmm, I'll have to do some head scratching here, but I can figure it out...
> OK there it goes! Hmm, found more files with odd permissions? Seems that
> it does not like NFS mounted home directories? I'll have to dig further.
> I guess you do local backups as "root"? Ever done NFS backups? (to? from?)

I thought root had the permissions to do anything. :)

Mounting: I run run_reoback.sh as a root cron job, so that's not a
problem. Otherwise, you'd just have to give mount permission to the user
you're running reoback as.

NFS: this I don't know, I've never had NFS shares. Reoback itself is
designed only to backup either locally or via FTP, but I can't see why NFS
mounts should be a problem...

> BTW, how many CDs do you end up burning? Are they mountable or compressed?

One CD. :) All the big stuff tends to be multimedia _not_ created by
myself or my Significant Other User. Those files can be much less
frequently burned to CD-Rs separately. To keep things simple, I put them
on /home/pub, but you could just skip them in the reoback config file too.
>From the system, I only back up /etc and /var/mail, which don't grow the
backup archives very much. So this is not an industrial-strength backup
solution, just something to save my and my Lady's work.

As such, the CDs don't have to be anything special, they're mountable and
contain the regular tarballs that reoback creates. 

-- 
Juha Siltala
http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/activity/people/jsiltala/

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