*This Reply from / Antwort von / Antwoord van:* LLLActive@GMX.Net - 2011-06-16 - 01:58:55 +0200 Just for the interest, I actually restored the complete directory for Thunderbird from the Mac's TimeMachine usb external drive by just copying the directory under openSuSE's .thunderbird. Then I renamed the directory from Thunderbird to .thunderbird and chown and chmod it to the new user on a new box. As I started Thunderbird, some mail accounts did not have its normal structure underneath it, and in these accounts the old mails were gone. It seemed to be a differential backup, but if I could make a new full backup, then maybe the restore by hand will work. I made a copy of the directory on an external HDD, copied it to the user's home directory, and made the above mentioned changes. Thunderbird took about a minute to start, then I had a complete duplicate that was on the Mac. After the initial start, it starts normally. I am doing this mail on the new system, all the other mails were from the Mac. I am trying the "System Backup" in YaST - System. Anyone used it before? It seems to back up partitions and tables as well as modified files of packages are searched for backup. I will report when it is done. @Anders: tried backintime yet? Al *Original sent by / Original von / Oorspronklik van:* ajh@nitio.de - Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:08:37 +0200
*This Reply from / Antwort von / Antwoord van:* LLLActive@GMX.Net - 2011-06-11 - 17:02:38 +0200
I also think (as Andrew does) that it is some rsync method. I'll look around and report back. Restore is pretty much like clicking on a file in the finder window inside the backup, and right click to restore. On the command level it can also be just copied with cp or as I often do with midnight commander (mc). It does not compress though, just file copies. hm, ok, so there is no real magic, except in the GUI that it reproduces what
On Saturday 11 June 2011 17:28:53 LLLActive@GMX.Net wrote: the application looked like with that backup restored.
I guess that means that we can do what it does already, and that someone just needs to write a nifty GUI for it. I have looked at several nice backup tools in the past, and while they have mostly been good and useful, none have had a really nice user interface, and the comment in wikipedia about being able to restore from backup during initial install sounds extremely cool. Sort of an alternative to a bare-metal restore
Now I'm going to look at backintime that Tejas talked about. That one is new to me
Anders
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