IfL stange happenings
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 2:29 pm
Hi all,
Needed to do a restore today and booted into IfL and has some strange
goings on.
First, I could left-click with my mouse, which works perfectly in all
Linux distros, BUT a double-click would NOT register at all. I was
reduced to clicking and then pressing enter to progress.
Second, though I 99% of the time do manual restores, for some reason I
tried an automatic restore first and each time I tried it failed. The
manual restore succeeded.
I will just explain how my backup folders are organised so the setup
can be tested. I have just come back to here after describing the
folder layout. It looks a mess when describing it with words but is
very logical when seen in real life.
I have a folder called "backups". Under that folder are folders for
each computer backed up. There are four folders under that for each
computer.
For the computer in question, called "Tardis", there are three more
folders for different types of backups. Only one of those folders is
used for IfW/IfL.
So here we are J:\Backups\Tardis\Complete disk\. In the last folder is
placed a full backup. Off that are two folders, Backup 1 and Backup 2.
They each get filled with incrementals until the window of IfW is full
and then I change over to the other folder. After a few backups (one a
day) the other folder gets emptied.
Because of that, when creating a backup, I have to tell the imaging
program where the full backup is. In IfW, this is already filled in
from the first time I did it. When trying to do an automatic restore
in IfL, the path to the full backup was completed. But when trying to
progress the program said that it could not find it. I could not even
edit it or reselect it. A manual restore succeeded.
Hope your brains have survived this. I know mine has not .
--
Cheers,
DrT
** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.
Needed to do a restore today and booted into IfL and has some strange
goings on.
First, I could left-click with my mouse, which works perfectly in all
Linux distros, BUT a double-click would NOT register at all. I was
reduced to clicking and then pressing enter to progress.
Second, though I 99% of the time do manual restores, for some reason I
tried an automatic restore first and each time I tried it failed. The
manual restore succeeded.
I will just explain how my backup folders are organised so the setup
can be tested. I have just come back to here after describing the
folder layout. It looks a mess when describing it with words but is
very logical when seen in real life.
I have a folder called "backups". Under that folder are folders for
each computer backed up. There are four folders under that for each
computer.
For the computer in question, called "Tardis", there are three more
folders for different types of backups. Only one of those folders is
used for IfW/IfL.
So here we are J:\Backups\Tardis\Complete disk\. In the last folder is
placed a full backup. Off that are two folders, Backup 1 and Backup 2.
They each get filled with incrementals until the window of IfW is full
and then I change over to the other folder. After a few backups (one a
day) the other folder gets emptied.
Because of that, when creating a backup, I have to tell the imaging
program where the full backup is. In IfW, this is already filled in
from the first time I did it. When trying to do an automatic restore
in IfL, the path to the full backup was completed. But when trying to
progress the program said that it could not find it. I could not even
edit it or reselect it. A manual restore succeeded.
Hope your brains have survived this. I know mine has not .
--
Cheers,
DrT
** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.