On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:11:35 -0700 (PDT) Joe Pruett <[email protected]> dijo:
> > Well, I was certainly logged in when I removed the CD/DVD drive and > > inserted the 500GB drive. I did not restart the computer - I just > > hot-swapped the drives. Then I launched pybackpack and proceeded to run > > the backup. Then I left the house for several hours. > > > > The filesystem on the 500GB drive is ext3. > > > > It must have been mounted or Nautilus would not have been able to > > display its contents, right? If so, then the problem is in explaining > > to rdiff-backup where to put the backup. Perhaps I need to get > > rdiff-backup's attention. I do have some 2x4s out back. > > ah, i was thinking an overnight unattended backup. can you cd to > /media/whatever from the command line? the little bit i've played with > ubuntu, it seems like it makes things look like they're in /media, but > they're really in some .gvfs dir off your home directory. Oh wow! You're onto something! I don't know what yet, but I do have a .gvfs directory, and rdiff-backup refuses to back it up because it says I do not have permission. I run rdiff-backup as root, so that surprised me. It is the only thing that rdiff-backup refuses to back up. And (not knowing what it is) I tried to delete it, but even from the command line as root I could not delete it. Furthermore, I spoke too hastily when I said I had managed to restore my computer to normal operations after deleting the backup that went to sda1. Nautilus has lost all my settings, including bookmarks. Furthermore, I had set things so even Desktop would never be displayed on the desktop (I like a clean screen). Now Nautilus is displaying every folder splattered all over the desktop, not just the Dekstop folder. Grrrr. There was a discussion here recently about where Nautilus keeps bookmarks, but I didn't save the discussion and I can't find it. It's in a text file in a hidden folder in my home folder, but I can't remember the name of the file or where it was located. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
