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User Confusion
Further research on my daily backup failing to run using anacron and Back In Time indicated that the system log file /var/log/syslog would provide some useful information. Since this file is typically quite large and contains thousands of lines of … Continue reading
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Error Logging
While searching for ways to see if my daily Back In Time backup script was running as a cron job, I came across a web posting that showed how to extend a command line in a script in order to … Continue reading
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Message in a bottle?
In my latest postings, I have been documenting the failure of anacron and/or Back In Time to run a daily backup of my data partition. My problem with the relevant cron job failing “silently” was that I wasn’t even sure … Continue reading
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Chronological Inconsistencies
In the previous post, I indicated how to schedule a job using Back In Time at any desired time of day using Gnome’s Scheduled Tasks utility. However, I also noted that the resulting cron job would not run if the … Continue reading
Going further back in time
I have never bothered to set automatic (scheduled) backups, relying instead on a number of different backup systems, and fairly frequent backups. I have several images of my entire hard disk, made over a period of weeks and months, and … Continue reading