-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [nmglug] WHAT THE HAY, aBACKUP. To: Geoff Chesshire <geoff@newmexico.com> References: <20201011181018.GC1925@shallowsky.com> <70360a9a-1495-f9ca-c877-4b01c7b91436@kaluta.us> <a07914d9-292c-9db5-8c07-94362d0fd4c7@newmexico.com> From: a <a@kaluta.us> Message-ID: <1ad22705-5332-75b8-7b77-9a13b795f9ab@kaluta.us> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 15:54:32 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <a07914d9-292c-9db5-8c07-94362d0fd4c7@newmexico.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US let me try and explain what the simple issue that presented itself be before I began "Fixing" malfunction which has caused this current tumult and where i approximately now. I attempted a backup by first clicking on the icon then a screen would open which included a small square to click, that screen would appear for a fraction of a second and blink out. Now i have replaced the icon, (emblem syboliclink.png) in the trash is /bin/rsnapshot.sh opening that:#!/bin/bash echo "backup of a home" rsnapshot alpha echo "done" read -n using rickety logic icon>parapathetic page (not found page)>home run. minus my intervention. Now I will divine your description. Yes we did not finish 2:00 AM, by street lamp, outside second street cafe. Thanks On 10/11/20 1:20 PM, Geoff Chesshire wrote:
Hi Anthony,
I remember when Jason wrote the script in /home/a/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh that runs the rsnapshot backup commands. We were with you either at the second street brewery or in our office. I think you had to leave before the script could be thoroughly tested. It could possibly be improved, but it should work.
The directory aBackup/ should exist on your external backup drive, so that when you plug it into the USB port, it gets mounted at /media/a/aBackup/ ... Then the backup script may be used to run the (well-documented) rsnapshot utility to back up your home directory onto your external backup drive. Obviously this works only if the external backup drive is plugged into the USB port.
Thanks, Geoff Chesshire
On 10/11/20 12:58 PM, a wrote:
/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh
The referenced trash item, /bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh was last accessed july 19 (in properties) the same date of my last backup file #20 what do you think put it in the file system and let it rip? The numbered files13-17 i imagine identify the previous backup up numbered files corresponding to that on the external drive,i haven't checked if the external referenced files have content (aside: my backup up external disk was connected to the computer,relevant?). the presenting problem manifested by an intermediate "file" flashing on for a fractional second. i have restored the original icon when i initially copied the icon content it contained: /rsnapshotBackup.sh that same code content. what I find missing is the parapathetic flash then disapear page. which when pressing a small bar which then began the external save.
Jason, who seems to be on hiatus, originally installed intalled aBackup, which speaks to its merit. Searching independently I could find no supporting text for aBackup. Akkana thanks for your interest.
On 10/11/20 12:10 PM, Akkana Peck wrote:
a writes:
"/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh" (attach) is sitting in the "trash", can I copy this part "/rsnapshotBackup.sh" and drop in in the file system and if do drop it in the files system will it auto place in correct order? Any insight? Thanks, a Maybe. But it might not be the one you want. It looks like you have several files called rsnapshotBackup.sh:
a writes:
a@alap:~$ sudo find / -name rsnapshotBackup.sh [sudo] password for a: /media/a/aBackup/alpha.17/alap/home/a/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh /media/a/aBackup/alpha.16/alap/home/a/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh /media/a/aBackup/alpha.15/alap/home/a/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh /media/a/aBackup/alpha.14/alap/home/a/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh /media/a/aBackup/alpha.13/alap/home/a/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh [ ... ] /home/a/.local/share/Trash/files/bin/rsnapshotBackup.sh [ ... ]
So you have the one in the Trash, plus five more in various places under /media/a/aBackup.
That one in the Trash could be a really old one. I don't know what rsnapshotBackup.sh -- does it restore from an old backup? In that case, the one in the Trash could be a super old one, or a bad one that didn't work right.
I would guess that the one in /media/a/aBackup/alpha.17 is the newest, but I wouldn't assume that without looking at the dates on all six of the files.
Personally, I'd be leery of using backup software that (a) doesn't have documentation that clearly tells you where to find the restore files, and (b) stores things in directories named "alpha". Alpha usually means very early software that hasn't been tested much and should only be considered experimental. But that's just me.
You should definitely make an offline copy of any files on your disk that are really important to you -- e.g. copy them to an external hard drive, and then unplug the hard drive -- before running any shell script where you're not sure exactly what it does, and where you're choosing from six different versions of the script without being sure why there are six of them.
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