Re: [LAU] System Restore...

"Russell Hanaghan" &lt;hanaghan(a)starband.net&gt; writes: 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 &lt;ats(a)offog.org&gt; <http://offog.org/>