On Wednesday 16 January 2019 11:59:39 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > 2 instant questions about backintime, which I just now installed to > make small backups as I work on some machine config files, and some > gcode to go with linuxcnc. > > This after haveing suffered the of having xmlindent nissfire and left > me with an empty xml file of over 250 loc I've had to reinvent from > scratch. > > A round of shingles to the author of that manpage. Now I know its a > filter you pipe input to, but thats not mentioned in the manpage. > > Anyway, I want to setup A) a directory in my home page on that machine > B) two profiles to watch 2 directories and their subdirs as two > separate progile's. which I've done, both useing the same > /home/gene/backup dir for the snapshots. > But all I can get out of backintime-gnome is that the backup location > is invalid. > > Its a terabyte drive, 3% used, what the heck is its problem? I own the > backup dir and everything to be stored in it. I don't intend to ever > backup the system, I have amanda doing that daily for almost 21 years > now. > > Am I using the wrong tool?, it certainly feels like it.
So I blew away backintime, and installed eclipse but I've never seen a login so screwed up, in 6 attempts to create an account, its confused the passwd with the "organization phrase" 6 times, but now I've gotten far enough to ask it for a passwd reset. I got past that finally, to be greeted by the worst concealed phishiing questionare I've ever seen. In the interests of not have to change my credit card on 2 minutes notice, I've already had to do that just about 90 days back, I backed out. They have my confirmed email address so they can spam me for the next 3 years like solidworks because I looked, couldn't figure out how to use it, nuked it, and my account pw. What in tarnation more do they need before I can even see their mailing list, so it looks as if eclipse will also get removed. Anybody else have a suggestion for a live backup for working on a 600 line file? Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
