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"Russell Hanaghan"  writes:
> ...and at the risk of being stoned in the Linux public square, is there

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> *any* form of the System Restore function that follws the model of the

> ~other~ OS?

I don't use Windows, so I have no idea how "System Restore" behaves,

but I find incremental backups very useful for fixing my machines when

I accidentally break something.
I use rdiff-backup, which maintains a copy of a directory tree

augmented with an arbitrarily-long history of changes. I run it

nightly on my root filesystem and home directory separately, so if I

mess up a file or directory I can just copy it out of the backup and

that'll be how it looked last night; if I want an older version (for

example, if I don't spot it's broken for a few days), I can use

rdiff-backup's restore mode to retrieve it as it looked at a specified

time in the past. If I want to revert the whole root filesystem I can

just rsync it back, or I can even boot directly off the backup if

necessary.
The downside is that you need the disk space to store the backup in --

but you keep a backup already, right?
--

Adam Sampson

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