On 07/24/2015 10:40 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
Pointing a backup program to a directory or volume should make zero difference in terms of ease. Arguably any backup program that differs in this regard, or wayward misbehaving programs that fill up all volume space are poorly designed.
Well I disagree with that! Or parts of it. In a development environment or an environment such as _open_Suse (as opposed to the Novell side) where we are more likely to download and run stuff from the "home:" section of the repositories, then the possibility of a wayward program is much higher. I recall one github derived version of a 'darktable' update that was ... wayward! Yes that affected me. That's an area where I *DO* lie on the bleeding edge and risk getting cut up. As for ease of use, well there's rsync. If I give it a simple "-x" it won't go over the file system boundary, so that nicely matches the DVDs. Except life ISN'T simple. realistically I have to give my backup programs, and that includes rsync, a long list of what not to back up, things like the caches and transient files such as /etc/mttab (but not /etc/fstab). You eventually learn that 'restoring' some files that might naively be backed up by tools such as rsync will screw your system, so you make the command line to rsync ever more complicated. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org