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As mentioned on my previous post, I’ve started using NSS Backup as my primary backup solution for my mobile workstation which runs Ubuntu Linux. I gotta say, it’s running pretty well, although recently I’ve had issues with Ubuntu recognising the mountable external hard disc I’ve been using as a back-up drive – save that story for another time – but yeah, it’s running pretty well. As mentioned I had asked the question. One of the development team members answered the question and requested that I open a ticket.

Shortly after that, chanages were made and the developer in charge was nice enough to leave us with an update:

I’ve change the default behaviour from creating the ‘last’ directory to creating NO directory. By default the backup is aborted now if destination directory does not exist. This prevents accidents like described here http://blog.rvdavid.net/30-gb-root-partition-full-how/ and serves the request for an option to enable such behaviour.

Changed in nssbackup:
assignee:	nobody ? peer.loz
status:	Confirmed ? Fix Committed

So I guess that’s that for an update. Since this little hick up has been fixed, I’ve had nothing but a stable backup solution.

I highly recommend that you do this. So-that-when-you-accidentally-hose-your-system-down-playing-with-gparted-to-resize-your-partitions-then-deciding-it-was-too_long-and-cancelling-halfway-through-”analysis”-thinking-it’s-”ok”-because-it-was-just-”analysing”-but-then-when-you-reboot-the-computer-it-tells-you-that-you-have-a-corrupt-mbr-or-something-so-you-scour-the-internet-for-a-solution-and-paste-a-command-which-wipes-out-your-nodes-because-you-forgot-to-put -n or -r-after-the-command (*whistles innocently*)… You can… recover!

Again, I highly recommend it. Not So Simple Backup solution for linux… A very stable alternative to the now super seded sbackup. NSSBackup a replacement for sbackup on Linux operating systems.

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