Who Needs Time Machine with "Back in Time"
November 3rd, 2009 by Shawn Powers in
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Bare Metal Recovery
On November 5th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) says:
Any open-source recommendations for Bare-Metal recovery? I'm familiar with HP's ignite, and IBM's MKSYSB for their unix variants, but I'm not aware of a native tool or open-source tool.
Windows restore point does
On November 4th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) says:
Windows restore point does not even touch your user files and is basically an emergency tool when you get a virus or a driver blows the world up. Restore point does not = backup. This is truly a backup and since all your settings are stored in dot files in your home directly, your settings are backed up. In other words you write over a document on accident, just recover from an hour ago. This was so fast it almost seemed like it is using lvm tricks.
Ehh..
On November 4th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) says:
Did I see this correctly? Did he just configure the app to save snapshots of the user directory (which includes the documents directory) in the documents directory? Or am I missing something here?
Yes, but
On November 4th, 2009 Shawn Powers says:
I did save to a Documents folder, but for me that's an NFS mounted server. Also, you can back up to a local folder inside the snapshot area, you just tell it not to back up the backup files. :)
__________________________Shawn Powers is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal. You might find him chatting on the IRC channel, or Twitter
ehh
On November 4th, 2009 ompaul (not verified) says:
sudo apt-get install foo might be better
hehe
I take it the real gag is "who needs backups"!
Nice....
On November 4th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) says:
it seems nice but it isn't going to save the setting and backup files like "windows restore point"
????
tell it to? so hard, check
On November 6th, 2009 cwrinn (not verified) says:
tell it to? so hard, check /etc for settings backup, check /var/log for log files. Damn, this is too difficult, I demand refund! :O
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