This reply is as a continuation of the discussion, not an argument with your suggestions. In the end I just burned the user files and left it at that. See below for details ... On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 05:14 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 11:32 -0500, William Stock wrote: > > In a small test I had no problem burning some of "my" files and some > > "root/root" files. However, using the CD for a restore would be a > > gigantic pain in the backside. You'd be sitting in front of your > > monitor forever. > > Yes. DVDs and CDs aren't great for lots of little files (really slow > seek speed, slow read speed), but are reasonable for large files where > the slow seek speed comes into the equation less often. And, depending > on how you put the files on the disc, you'd have to correct all the > changed ownerships, file permissions, and SELinux contexts. And you'd > have to do it as root to be able to access all the files you want to > backup, and the same when you restore them, later on. > > My suggestion about tarring (or otherwise archiving the files), puts all > that ownership, permissions, and file context information within the > archive, where it can be restored as the files are extracted. > > Though a gotcha with that, is people who backup their files, install a > new system, create a new user by making the same username but not with > the same numerical user ID, then try to restore their files. Generally > speaking, the name is for your benefit, the filesystems go by the ID. What I had been doing was quite simple. Rather than doing a compressed backup, I had just been using a small rsync script to copy my files and/or changes to my backup partition. I have a big enough hard drive with lots of room. I found that I seldom had need of a restore, but on several occasions it was helpful to just go to the /backup partition and directly look at what I had used, or configured before. Occasionally I would have need to copy a data file back to my /home partition. When I came to burning the new disk I wanted to be able to do the same. It is very unlikely that on my small system, I would need to restore a file or directory from two or three Fedora versions ago. But I might like to look at what I did with some file back then. If it was a root file I would switch to root and look at a burned file from there. So I wasn't trying to burn a backed up file per se but rather a copied file. That shouldn't have been a problem I would have thought, unless having used rsync with accumulated changes makes a difference. -- Regards Bill Fedora 14, Gnome 2.32 Evo.2.32, Emacs 23.2.1 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
