its a set of pay software but very very good, r-studio.com good luck in whatever app you go with.
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Nathan England <nat...@paysonlinux.org> wrote: > > I plugged my USB drive into my system, ran my backup script and went to > supper. My backup script contains > > rsync -avz --delete-after /home/naubrey/ /media/320GB/naubrey/ > > > Usually, it works great. Problem is my /home/naubrey/ directory on my > system was EMPTY and it wiped out my backup!!!! > > I just wiped my work laptop and reinstalled, but I had not copied my user > directory stuff back because I needed to make some additional changes. I > made the changes and wanted to back up the changes, forgetting my user > directory was included in my all_inclusive backup script... > > The USB drive is ext2 and when I came back I immediately unmounted and > mounted ro. > > This is a typical user directory with 60GB of text files, abiword files, > kword files, OpenOffice files, mp3, ogg, about 100 avi dvds, and thousands > of notes... Some files were only 2 k others were over 1GB. > > As I have never attempted recovery of deleted files because I am (99% of > the time) very vigilante about my backups. I design backup systems for > customers!!!! ha ha > > What utilities or programs are there that might automate this as I really > don't care to sit and tell the system to recover this inode, and yes, this > inode, and again y to this inode as there are well over 200,000 files. > > Thanks for any help, insights, condolences!!! > > nathan > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
