[ale] How could I have avoided this?

[George Allen]

I've actually been using rsync+hardlink backups for a while now... but with 
this brand-new installation of Kubuntu I switched to LVM (by using said rsync 
backup of course)

maybe sometime I'll get around to RTFM'ing and seeing how LVM snapshots work 
too....

On Monday 29 October 2007 00:37:33 Brian Pitts wrote:
> George Allen wrote:
> > I usually do something like:
> >
> > mv .mozilla .mozilla~
> >
> > but... since I've been playing with 'git' lately, one could do:
> >
> > cd .mozilla
> > git init
> > git add *
> > git commit -a -m "about to hack this dir to pieces... standby for
> > disaster" git branch test
> > git checkout test
> > <edit edit edit>
> > <frustration>
> > rm -rf *
> > git branch master
> > <yay, all the old files are back>
> > git branch test
> > <all gone - back to frustration>
> >
> > etc....
> > Also been learning mercurial lately - too bad neither really tracks file
> > permissions - so can't do something like check in your /etc/ dir....
> > without potential security problems on checkout
> >
> > -George
>
> Another good idea is to use automate making snapshots for your home
> directory, much like the new Mac OS does with Time Machine[1]. Two of
> the programs commonly mentioned on the list for this are rsnapshot and
> dirvish.
>
> If you do this, when Firefox fails you simply delete it's current
> directory and restore the most recent snapshot. Because the "rsync+hard
> link" backup approach has so little overhead this could be very recent.
>
> -Brian
>
> [1]
> http://chucker.mystfans.com/2006/08/23/time-machine-compared-to%E2%80%A6-rs
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