Please take a look at my recipe to back up a Vista computer using dirvish:
http://wiki.dirvish.org/index.cgi?VistaRecipe
It describes at a somewhat higher level how I managed to automatically
backup my laptop using dirvish. Please feel free to improve the page.
==> I have one point of attenti
Why not change your expire rule-set in such a way that it expires eg. the
backup of each 'first saturday of a month' after a year?
expire-default: +35 days
expire-rule:
mday{ 8-31 }+35 days
mday{ 1-7 } +370days
wday{ mon-sat }
It is virtually impossible to do a full restore without doing some
serious after work. The problem is at least that your boot sector is not
being backed up, and if it would be, it'd be most probably useless
because the file layout on disk has changed. Another problem you'll run
in to with Ubunt
Why not use some of the standard hooks in the dirvish.conf?
pre-server
pre-client
post-client
post-server
Check the dirvish docs:
http://www.dirvish.org/FAQ.html#pre_and_post_configuration_scripts
JP
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Check your acl setting in fstab as described in
http://wiki.dirvish.com/index.cgi?VistaRecipe
jippie
> why need windows images
> full space?
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About external drives: I have a 500GB WD MyBook drive, and a great
feature is that the disk spins down if idle for more than 10 minutes or
so.
Beware that some of these USB drives need too long to spin up,
causing problems when using them in RAID confi
