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?<br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Matt Graham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danceswithcrows@usa.net" target="_blank">danceswithcrows@usa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> Rusty.Carruth wrote:<br>
>> First, if you are not using 'tar' or 'cpio' or other program which<br>
>> correctly handles 'character (and block) special files' you will sooner<br>
>> or later find yourself copying much more than you should (think pipes<br>
>> and other character or block special files<br>
<br>
</div>rsync. While rsync will not handle hard links in the optimal way by default,<br>
how many people actually have hard links on their filesystems these days?<br>
Also, char and block devices would only be found in /dev in just about any<br>
case I can think of, and backing up /dev seems a bit like a waste of time<br>
since udev manages it.<br>
<br>
From: Michael Havens<br>
<div class="im">> Yep,.... the advice to chown the file got lost in the shuffle<br>
<br>
</div>Yes, this is why it's important to read the whole message and understand it<br>
when you're talking about semi-complicated technical things.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> however after I did that I click it and 'run in terminal'. then a shell<br>
> opens and it says "building file list" and then something flashes<br>
> across the screen and the terminal closes itself.<br>
<br>
</div>This probably means there's some sort of error happening. So, open a konsole<br>
or gnome-terminal and run the backup script inside that terminal, which will<br>
allow you to see what the error is. This is pretty basic, and I thought you<br>
had done it already.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
>> If you need to restore from the backup disk, just mount it. The<br>
>> command for doing that is in the script ("mount /mnt/backup").<br>
</div><div class="im">> as for restoring the backup isn't there a way to retrieve one file?<br>
<br>
</div>If you mount a disk on /mnt/backup , then rsync your ~ to /mnt/backup/bmike/ ,<br>
that means that /mnt/backup/bmike/ will contain an exact copy of your ~. This<br>
means that finding 1 file under /mnt/backup/bmike/ and copying it to<br>
/home/bmike/ should be a very simple and easy thing.<br>
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