On Friday 18 January 2019 00:31:21 Rusi Mody wrote: > On Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 10:30:05 PM UTC+5:30, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > 2 instant questions about backintime, which I just now installed to > > make small backups as I work on some machine config files, and some > > gcode to go with linuxcnc. > > > > This after haveing suffered the of having xmlindent nissfire and > > left me with an empty xml file of over 250 loc I've had to reinvent > > from scratch. > > > > A round of shingles to the author of that manpage. Now I know its a > > filter you pipe input to, but thats not mentioned in the manpage. > > > > Anyway, I want to setup A) a directory in my home page on that > > machine B) two profiles to watch 2 directories and their subdirs as > > two separate progile's. which I've done, both useing the same > > /home/gene/backup dir for the snapshots. > > But all I can get out of backintime-gnome is that the backup > > location is invalid. > > > > Its a terabyte drive, 3% used, what the heck is its problem? I own > > the backup dir and everything to be stored in it. I don't intend to > > ever backup the system, I have amanda doing that daily for almost 21 > > years now. > > If youve drunk the git koolaid you may want to look at mr and > etckeeper > > https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/introducing_mr/ > https://www.linux.com/learn/weekend-project-control-your-configuration >-etckeeper > > If not, rcs > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_Control_System
Or for me, just turning on the saveas options in geany works a treat. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
