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On Wednesday 09 November 2011, Andreas Zeller wrote:
> Am 06.11.2011, 23:34 Uhr, schrieb Ingo Kl=C3=B6cker <kloecker@kde.org>:
> > On Friday 04 November 2011, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> >> On Friday, 2011-11-04, Andreas Zeller wrote:
> [...]
>=20
> >> > ...my backup of ~/ is sufficient?
> >>=20
> >> Yes. I always backup $HOME since I also want backup of all my
> >> other data :) It is definitely sufficient to backup PIM data,
> >> have been doing that for about a decade now.
> >=20
> > Yes, making a backup of $HOME is the right thing to do (although
> > you can exclude a few directories which only contain caches).
> >=20
> > But there's a small catch: You should make the backup when you are
> > _not_ logged in. Otherwise you risk backing up inconsistent data,
> > e.g. a running application might not yet have written everything
> > to disk. This is particularly important if databases are involved.
>=20
> Because I'm a noob, please tell me how to make a backup when I'm not
> logged in.

This is what I do:
=2D Log out of the KDE workspace
=2D Switch to a text console (with Ctrl+Alt+F1; on openSUSE you can switch=
=20
back to the graphical login screen with Ctrl+F7; I'm not sure whether=20
this is a standard)
=2D Log in as root, fire up the external harddisk and mount it
=2D Start the backup
=2D Take a walk, do some running, go shopping, etc.
=2D When I return the (incremental) backup usually is finished (currently,=
=20
it takes about 30 minutes)
=2D Unmount the external harddisk (after quickly checking the backup=20
report summary)
=2D Log out of text console
=2D Switch back to graphical login screen (with Ctrl+F7)
=2D Log in into the KDE workspace

Quite some manual work is involved, but, since I do not want to keep the=20
external harddisk running all of the time, the backup cannot be=20
automated further.


Regards,
Ingo

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