Re: rdiff-backup memory problems

2008-05-07 Thread Matthew Dale Moore
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 11:58:20 am David wrote: > Also, I don't trust rdiff-backup as much as I do rsync. It seems a bit > too complicated/fragile by comparison. Rsync is very robust, simple, > and works every time. The only reason I use rdiff-backup is because of > it's reverse delta support. I

Re: rdiff-backup memory problems

2008-05-07 Thread Matthew Dale Moore
I read you CLUG post. It seems like you should be able to do everything that you want using rdiff-backup and not using your temp work directory with rsync (which looks to be messing things up). Also, if you are using rdiff-backup on backup1, why do you need to preserve file history on backup2?

Re: DVD drive misbehaves after a while, kernel problem?

2007-12-18 Thread Matthew Dale Moore
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 03:43:00 pm Mirko Parthey wrote: > After between 10 and 60 minutes of uptime, my DVD drive begins to show > strange behaviour: > > - an icon appears on the KDE desktop showing either a data CD-ROM > or an audio CD (although the tray is empty and closed) > > - in /var/l