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It is kind of like the Apple back up software called Time Machine and is called Back In Time. I know about this purely because it was recommended by Linux ...
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    Fantasic Backup Software

    It is kind of like the Apple back up software called Time Machine and is called Back In Time. I know about this purely because it was recommended by Linux Format Magazine.

    It's really easy and will sit in your system tray automatically taking incremental backups. Restoring is a matter of selecting when to restore to.

    This is back up made really easy and means that no one has an excuse not to do it

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    Ah yes. The link.... Back In Time | le-Web.org
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    Ok, Elija. I edited my apt sources list. Let it Update. One thing that I read, I want to make sure I interpeted correctly. To have backups made on my External Rocketfish 200 GIG IDE Drive, (Which I formatted to NTFS by the way since my wife runs Windows). I have to do it manually?
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    Quick Snapshot, Do I hit OK to manually have it take a snapshot of home/harry ?

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    Well, I just get it to do automatic snapshots - one a day - I haven't found how to do the incremental yet and when I do it will be every hour...
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    I'll try experimenting with this later. I'll either bork it or get it to do what I want it to do
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    Quote Originally Posted by elija View Post
    I haven't found how to do the incremental yet and when I do it will be every hour...
    It appears that it hard links to unchanged files so that ls looks like it has a whole new copy, but du shows it correctly... I think

    Can anyone tell me how I can prove a file is a hard link?
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    It appears that if the number next to the permissions on a file when you execute "ls -l" is not a 1 then you have a hard link.
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    I usually make images of all my partitions now and then, but this looks interesting, too.

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