Fwd: undelete bookmark folder

[Michael Havens]

The permissions are wrong. It is a "read-only filesystem(30)". What do I
need to chmod to? would 700 work or do you recommend something else?
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net>wrote:

> > Rusty.Carruth wrote:
> >> First, if you are not using 'tar' or 'cpio' or other program which
> >> correctly handles 'character (and block) special files' you will sooner
> >> or later find yourself copying much more than you should (think pipes
> >> and other character or block special files
>
> rsync.  While rsync will not handle hard links in the optimal way by
> default,
> how many people actually have hard links on their filesystems these days?
> Also, char and block devices would only be found in /dev in just about any
> case I can think of, and backing up /dev seems a bit like a waste of time
> since udev manages it.
>
> From: Michael Havens
> > Yep,.... the advice to chown the file got lost in the shuffle
>
> Yes, this is why it's important to read the whole message and understand it
> when you're talking about semi-complicated technical things.
>
> > however after I did that I click it and 'run in terminal'. then a shell
> > opens and it says "building file list" and then something flashes
> > across the screen and the terminal closes itself.
>
> This probably means there's some sort of error happening.  So, open a
> konsole
> or gnome-terminal and run the backup script inside that terminal, which
> will
> allow you to see what the error is.  This is pretty basic, and I thought
> you
> had done it already.
>
> >> If you need to restore from the backup disk, just mount it.  The
> >> command for doing that is in the script ("mount /mnt/backup").
> > as for restoring the backup isn't there a way to retrieve one file?
>
> If you mount a disk on /mnt/backup , then rsync your ~ to
> /mnt/backup/bmike/ ,
> that means that /mnt/backup/bmike/ will contain an exact copy of your ~.
>  This
> means that finding 1 file under /mnt/backup/bmike/ and copying it to
> /home/bmike/ should be a very simple and easy thing.
>
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