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Re: backintime

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On Wed 16 Jan 2019 at 11:59:39 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote:
> 2 instant questions about backintime, which I just now installed to make 
> small backups as I work on some machine config files, and some gcode to 
> go with linuxcnc.
> 
> This after haveing suffered the of having xmlindent nissfire and left me 
> with an empty xml file of over 250 loc I've had to reinvent from 
> scratch.
> 
> A round of shingles to the author of that manpage.  Now I know its a 
> filter you pipe input to, but thats not mentioned in the manpage.

A bit harsh; doesn't "*stream* formatter" mean that it's a filter?

> Anyway, I want to setup A) a directory in my home page on that machine
> B) two profiles to watch 2 directories and their subdirs as two separate  
> progile's.  which I've done, both useing the same /home/gene/backup dir 
> for the snapshots.
> But all I can get out of backintime-gnome is that the backup location is 
> invalid.

Can it use the same location for two profiles (asked in ignorance)?
What happens if you split things up?

Cheers,
David.

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backintime Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-01-16 18:00 +0100
  Re: backintime Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-01-16 19:40 +0100
    Re: backintime Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-01-16 20:20 +0100
      Re: backintime Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-01-16 21:30 +0100
      Re: backintime Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-01-16 21:40 +0100
        Re: backintime Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-01-16 22:00 +0100
          Re: backintime Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-01-16 22:20 +0100
  Re: backintime Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-01-16 23:20 +0100
    Re: backintime Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-01-17 02:10 +0100
      Re: backintime Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-01-17 02:30 +0100
        Re: backintime Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-01-17 02:30 +0100
  Re: backintime David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-18 01:00 +0100
    Re: backintime Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-01-18 01:20 +0100
  Re: backintime David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-01-18 03:40 +0100
    Re: backintime Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2019-01-18 04:40 +0100
      Re: backintime Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-01-18 11:40 +0100
        Re: backintime Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-01-19 11:10 +0100
          Re: backintime David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2019-01-19 16:00 +0100
            Re: backintime Rusi Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2019-01-21 06:30 +0100
              Re: backintime Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-01-21 08:10 +0100
                Re: backintime Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-01-21 19:10 +0100
      Re: backintime David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-01-19 05:50 +0100
  Re: backintime Rusi Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2019-01-18 06:50 +0100
    Re: backintime Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-01-18 09:20 +0100

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