User Feedback :: Reguarding backup



I had run the live cd a few times on my my computer to try it out, when I rebooted back to windows I went looking through my "C:" drive and noticed the DSL backup file:  backup.tar.gz  Out of curiosity (and pure n00bness) I clicked on the file and winrar opened it up into the same folder. I looked at the file, remember this is in windows, and then deleted it to the recycle bin. everything was fine untill I tried to empty the recycle bin and found that windows could not delete this file.  So... I restored it back to the original folder.  When I checked in that folder I found that it had grown by 4 gb!  I tried the same proceedure again and it grew to 8 gb !! So, I put in my DSL live cd to try to fix it, but didn't have the right permissions etc, crash course in linux, things were starting to look pretty scary....Luckily for me I had a system restore program called goback, so I managed to restore my hard drive to a previous state.
 It might be an idea to make the DSL backup filetype unique to DSL as so it can't be opened, n00blessly, in windows.
.  I still really am enjoying DSL and my hard drive is fine now.
DSL by default does not have a backup device preselected.
DSL by default does not mount any hard drives therefore will not write any file to hard drive unless so directed.

You would have had to have a prior backup.tar.gz before running the liveCD in oder for DSL to use it automatically. That backup.tar.gz would have had to been an action under your direction from some prior use.
Yes, I mounted hda1 and made a backup of my settings in a previous DSL session, then I rebooted to mswindows  What, I think, I did wrong was to open that file in a mswindows environment.  I'm only wondering if it would be safer if the DSL backup extention was of a type that only DSL[I] could recognize, so it couldn't be accidentally opened by a common program in mswindow.
Quote (ubl @ Dec. 05 2005,16:15)
Yes, I mounted hda1 and made a backup of my settings in a previous DSL session, then I rebooted to mswindows  What, I think, I did wrong was to open that file in a mswindows environment.  I'm only wondering if it would be safer if the DSL backup extention was of a type that only DSL[I] could recognize, so it couldn't be accidentally opened by a common program in mswindow.

Seems thats the good, the bad, and the greatest thing of working with Linux, it gives you complete power. I'm thinkin some access restrictions could be just the thing? Not sure as I'm still a noob, but am wondering if chmod could help you out, maybe someone can answer as I'd be interested in knowing as well for reference.

Merry Xmas
Rob
I have solved my problem, thanks.  The lesson I learned is: do not open the "backup.tar.gz" in an mswindows environment.  Windows doesn't understand Linux.
 Yes, I may have been able to "chmod" the file in DSL and then delete it, but, at the time this happened to me,  I was new to Linux programming so I used another "tried and true" method to remove the file.
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