All of my working files are in a directory named '1'. At the moment my basic backup strategy involves periodically coping this directory onto an external hard disk - it's crude, time-consuming, but at least I know it works.
I've been trying to do something similar with Simple Backup - should be simple, and, being incremental should be a bit faster.
I start up Simple Backup, select, 'Use custom backup setting', click on the 'include' tab, highlight '/home/, click the '+ Add Directory' button, highlight my '1' directory, click the 'open' button, so that /home/roger/1 now appears on the 'include' tab page. I click on /home/roger/1 to highlight it, then click on the 'Backup Now!. I get a message about a process being started in the background, and, sure enough, a folder with a very long name appears in /var/backup.
However, when I start Simple Backup Restore, I get the message:
"Error: no backups found in the target directory".
What am I doing wrong?
Roger D
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I've made some progress on the above problem - I'd failed to click the save button to save my backup configuration.
Experimenting, I've managed to backup and restore some fairly small directories, but things don't seem to work with larger directories. I suspect that part of the problem is that I've been saving several different backup configurations. When I look in my /var/backup folder, I can see two new.ful folders, perhaps my system is getting a bit confused.
Do I need to delete old configurations? If so, how? Do I do it at the command line using sudo?
By the way, I'm running Ubuntu 8.04.
Roger D
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Hi
All of my working files are in a directory named '1'. At the moment my basic backup strategy involves periodically coping this directory onto an external hard disk - it's crude, time-consuming, but at least I know it works.
I've been trying to do something similar with Simple Backup - should be simple, and, being incremental should be a bit faster.
I start up Simple Backup, select, 'Use custom backup setting', click on the 'include' tab, highlight '/home/, click the '+ Add Directory' button, highlight my '1' directory, click the 'open' button, so that /home/roger/1 now appears on the 'include' tab page. I click on /home/roger/1 to highlight it, then click on the 'Backup Now!. I get a message about a process being started in the background, and, sure enough, a folder with a very long name appears in /var/backup.
However, when I start Simple Backup Restore, I get the message:
"Error: no backups found in the target directory".
What am I doing wrong?
Roger D
Hi
I've made some progress on the above problem - I'd failed to click the save button to save my backup configuration.
Experimenting, I've managed to backup and restore some fairly small directories, but things don't seem to work with larger directories. I suspect that part of the problem is that I've been saving several different backup configurations. When I look in my /var/backup folder, I can see two new.ful folders, perhaps my system is getting a bit confused.
Do I need to delete old configurations? If so, how? Do I do it at the command line using sudo?
By the way, I'm running Ubuntu 8.04.
Roger D
Hi
Sorry about this, but I've been confusing Simple Linux Backup, with Simple Backup. It's the latter I'm trying to use.
Roger D
Yeah, I kind of figured you had them confused! See, you wouldn't be having these problems if you used Simple Linux Backup instead! :-)
- Steve