On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:30:54 -0700
John Jason Jordan dijo:
> Ever since the backup this morning I'm getting kernel panics. I'm going
> to send this and then poke around some more.
/var/log messages gives me the following:
Jun 25 15:33:24 Devil7 kernel: [ 2528.452471] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.IDE0.PRIM.
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:23:12 -0700
"Michael M. Moore" dijo:
> > However, I got an error on the .gvfs file:
> >
> > j...@devil7:~$ sudo rdiff-backup
> > --include-globbing-filelist /home/jjj/rdiff_excludes.txt /
> > /media/disk2/Full_system_backup
> > ListError home/jjj/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2/.gvfs [
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 11:05 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
> OK, I created the globbing file. At 9:32 am I started it. There was
> a /media/disk2/Full_system_backup folder already in existence, created
> when I ran rdiff-backup the first time a month ago using pybackpack.
> The lights on both d
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:02:32 -0700
"Michael M. Moore" dijo:
> On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 18:01 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > ... I have concocted the following which I think will back up
> > everything to the disk in the Ultrabay (assume all one line):
> >
> > rdiff-backup
> > --exclude /pr
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 18:01 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
> I found the man page overwhelming, and the wiki and FAQ equally so. The
> problem is that they assume more knowledge of how commands and
> filesystems work than I have.
>
> However, I have concocted the following which I think will
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:50:42 -0700
"Michael M. Moore" dijo:
> On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 15:30 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> >
> > I suspect part of the problem is the pybackpack GUI for rdiff-backup.
> > Before tossing out rdiff-backup completely I'm going to see if dumbass
> > me can learn how
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 15:30 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
> I suspect part of the problem is the pybackpack GUI for rdiff-backup.
> Before tossing out rdiff-backup completely I'm going to see if dumbass
> me can learn how to use it from the command line.
It's really pretty simple -- the man
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:11:18 -0700 (PDT)
Joe Pruett dijo:
> > The problem is, as Keith suspected, that rdiff-backup (or its GUI,
> > pybackpack), helpfully creates folders if it doesn't see them. Worse,
> > if the folder already exists it assumes I wouldn't want to overwrite
> > it, and creates a
> The problem is, as Keith suspected, that rdiff-backup (or its GUI,
> pybackpack), helpfully creates folders if it doesn't see them. Worse,
> if the folder already exists it assumes I wouldn't want to overwrite
> it, and creates a copy of the folder someplace else.
>
> Furthermore, if I run rdiff-
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:49:06 -0700
Paul Mullen dijo:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:57:54AM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> > The easiest way to differentiate a directory that will be used for a
> > mount point, and a mounted partition on that directory, is to make
> > the substructure different, an
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:57:54AM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> The easiest way to differentiate a directory that will be used for a
> mount point, and a mounted partition on that directory, is to make
> the substructure different, and rely on that. For example, if the
It's even easier than tha
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> The easiest way to differentiate a directory that will be used for a
> mount point, and a mounted partition on that directory, is to make
> the substructure different, and rely on that.
Would it be possible to make /mnt (or /media, or wherev
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 07:46:41PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> me drag and drop files from the 500GB drive that it is mounted. And I
> also assumed that if it is mounted, then any disk writes to the mount
> point would go to the 500GB drive. Evidently I am missing a critical
> bit of understa
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 20:27 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:11:35 -0700 (PDT)
> Joe Pruett dijo:
> >
> > ah, i was thinking an overnight unattended backup. can you cd to
> > /media/whatever from the command line? the little bit i've played with
> > ubuntu, it seems li
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:11:35 -0700 (PDT)
Joe Pruett dijo:
> > Well, I was certainly logged in when I removed the CD/DVD drive and
> > inserted the 500GB drive. I did not restart the computer - I just
> > hot-swapped the drives. Then I launched pybackpack and proceeded to run
> > the backup. Then
> Well, I was certainly logged in when I removed the CD/DVD drive and
> inserted the 500GB drive. I did not restart the computer - I just
> hot-swapped the drives. Then I launched pybackpack and proceeded to run
> the backup. Then I left the house for several hours.
>
> The filesystem on the 500GB
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:51:51 -0700 (PDT)
Joe Pruett dijo:
> > After an hour I finally got my computer back to working properly. It's
> > all because of a backup that went to sda1 instead of to an external
> > disk. I came home and discovered that the backup had failed due to
> > inadequate disk s
> After an hour I finally got my computer back to working properly. It's
> all because of a backup that went to sda1 instead of to an external
> disk. I came home and discovered that the backup had failed due to
> inadequate disk space. A few moments later I confirmed that the hard
> disk was 100%
After an hour I finally got my computer back to working properly. It's
all because of a backup that went to sda1 instead of to an external
disk. I came home and discovered that the backup had failed due to
inadequate disk space. A few moments later I confirmed that the hard
disk was 100% full.
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