On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 15:08 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Mon June 16 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Copy it back over from your latest backup. > > > > Though, this would require that you are already making backups. If > > you're not, consider this a lesson about why you should, go get yourself > > a big, external firewire drive (and a compatible controller if your > > machine doesn't support firewire yet) and check out the faubackup > > package. > > ok, so my Mybook backup is a few months old.. I was using an rsync command > line to backup my desktop. > never heard of faubackup before! > # faubackup /home /media/disk ( the Mybook 750Gb.. external USB HD) > > lets see how long it takes.. > > yeah, but this was also too late for me:) I uh, managed to wipe out my wifes > entire Mail folder ( kmail)... ran some stupid command that was supposed to > do a maildir2mbox conversion. Well, it sorta did, but only the top level > folders, and it wiped out the entire folders email, including sub folders.. > and the mbox files were not in subfolder format... > SOOOooo, I had to do a quick mbox2maildir, humbly apologizing that I'll make > backups more often:) at least before I do anything stupid.. Faubackup is intended to run as a cron.daily script: Make sure /etc/faubackup.conf is sane before that runs next, as it does NOT make sure that there's a filesystem mounted at that mountpoint before continuting. If you don't either disable faubackup's cronjob or ensure your backup filesystem is going to be there when faubackup runs, it'll run nightly. I have a disk a little over twice the size of the filesystems on ursa-major (set up as an LVM so I can expand it later when I get another disk) mounted as /media/backup and point faubackup that way, occasionally tweaking the retention times if I notice it's getting tight on space. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca
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