Julian Brooks wrote: > Cheers Bob :) > > Uuummm - work files yes, system configs/settings not really. > > Any top tips, like where are the permission file/s? I think you are asking what backup software would be recommended? There are many different ones. Let me point to a reference. https://wiki.debian.org/BackupAndRecovery Personally I always used to use rsync scripts for years. These days I am enjoying using BackupPC. But isn't to say that amanda or bacula or any of the others are not good too. They are all the same and all different. But you ask about permission files. I think perhaps I wasn't clear enough. For example I could run 'find' down the backup tree and print the file modes of the files there. cd /path/to/backup find . -type l -prune -o -printf "chmod %m %p\n" There are no whitespace in most files in /usr and therefore the above would print out a series of commands such as: chmod 755 . chmod 755 ./bin chmod 755 ./bin/vnc4server chmod 755 ./bin/xkbevd chmod 755 ./bin/pavucontrol chmod 755 ./bin/sg_dd chmod 755 ./bin/glxgears chmod 755 ./bin/sensors-conf-convert chmod 755 ./bin/etags.emacs24 chmod 755 ./bin/qemu-armeb ... chmod 4755 ./bin/sudo ... chmod 2755 ./games/hack Could then inspect the output for anything strange such as whitespace in filenames. Then run it as a script, perhaps after editing it. Bob
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