On Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 10:30:05 PM UTC+5:30, 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.
If youve drunk the git koolaid you may want to look at mr and etckeeper https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/introducing_mr/ https://www.linux.com/learn/weekend-project-control-your-configuration-etckeeper If not, rcs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_Control_System
