What Is In A Backup?
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Hello all. Following the guide I managed to use the backup application. All well and good.
In the external HD there is now a Triquel Backup Folder with my home folder.
Q: should that only have a number of folders inside it named "duplicity-full._____ etc"?
Backups I'm familiar with usually show individual and accessible folders just as they appear on your computer.
And there are also a bunch of files alongside it (outside the backup folder) named "duplicity-full.______ etc".
Q: is that normal and correct?
Thank you.
If you are using the default software for backup on Trisquel in system settings - Backup.
Yes it is normal I have used it before it compresses and encrypts if you select the encryption option. This renaming and compressing is actually good if you want to backup on a windows or mac partition because it doesn't have any illegal characters(different file systems have certain characters you can't use in naming files which can give errors when backing up and it won't backup that file that has at least one illegal character in it) I think also that the files are not over a certain amount too because file systems have single file size limitations.
The backup is not meant for you to be able to access the backup data on the drive you backed it up to if you want to access deleted files go to the folder you deleted them in nautilus and left click on the folder then select restore missing files.
Make sure you are connected to the drive you backed up to and it is mounted before you do this.
I am not sure how the restore feature works because I haven't used it before but I am just guessing that's how the backup works it compresses it and encrypts it too if you ask and it to then stores it on the drive you tell it too and if you want old deleted files you do as I said before above. ^^
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Not "left click" but "right click". Déjà Dup's backups are incremental too: only what has changed since the last backup is added. Yet another reason for the weird format. And you can restore any file as it was at any date (don't worry about the external running out of space: Déjà Dup removed the oldest backup if so).
You can go to System Settings then select backup and then select restore to restore files then follow popup window's directions according to what you want it to do. I think this is a great feature because you can do a fresh install and then you can use this restore feature to restore your home folder with all its settings.
This is what I do. I keep things I create that can't be easily made again in my home folder. For downloaded pictures videos documents and such that I want to keep I put manually (with the file manager nautilus) on my external hard drive to save space on my internal drive and also to separate important files from files that can be created again easily such as downloading them again. Ripped cds and dvds I put on an external drive because I usually don't need them often enough to keep them on my laptop's internal drive. Also I keep downloaded documents usually in my home folder just because they often are not big enough to care for having them not backed up too. Like free brochures I downloaded from American College of Sports Medicine. So if they are small file size or you use them often enough then keep them on the internal drive other wise do the latter.
The backup is a compressed archive of your files that's why it looks that way.
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