[kde-linux] deleted .kde

[James Loughner]

I use Kdar it makes backup sets to the size you want. Then you can burn
them with K2b or whatever. What surprises me is no one has combined the
functionality so you can backup direct to CD/DVD. Yes you can make a
script but a lot of people can't do it and it is tricky because you must
prompt the user to  change disks and  for the next backup file then
start the burn again for the new disk and it may not be obvious how many
disks are needed when you start.

Jim

david wrote:
> Kevin Krammer wrote:
>   
>> On Thursday 27 December 2007, david wrote:
>>     
>>> You'll also need to change ownership of your copied .kde folder - it
>>> needs to belong to the correct user ID. On my Debian systems (using
>>> private groups), that would be "chown -R your_user_ID:your_user_ID
>>> ~.kde" for the .kde folder and everything in it.
>>>       
>> This is whyI always recommend using tar, because it creates the files with the 
>> current user's identity on extraction.
>>     
>
> The problem with tar (for me) is it creates a single big file. In my 
> case, about 36GB big for my home directory. Too big for the older SMB 
> support to move around on the network (haven't tried Etch's CIFS support 
> yet). Hard to keep offline backups on optical media.
>
> Of course, for the original poster's need to maintain a backup of his 
> .kde folder, the backup file wouldn't be that large.
>
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