Deja-dup sucks. Use ZFS if you want the Time Machine experience on Linux. You'll learn some valuable stuff figuring that out. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Dec 15, 2015, 21:11 Lewit, Douglas <<a href="mailto:d-lewit@neiu.edu">d-lewit@neiu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">Changing the subject a little bit, is anyone out there familiar with Ubuntu? Sheila, you work for Canonical, right? So maybe you can answer this question. I was creating a backup. I thought my destination folder was my external hard-drive but it wasn't. My destination folder was a folder in Home called "deja-dup". When I looked inside deja-dup I found a couple hundred tar.gz files, and I'm assuming those are compressed files corresponding to my backup. Is it SAFE to just copy those files to my external hard-drive and then just delete the entire deja-dup folder? Or should I just leave the deja-dup folder alone?</font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Backups in Mac are so much easier. I love the Time Machine program that Macs use. Time Machine really takes all the headaches out of doing a backup. I think backing up files in Linux is definitely a more complicated process. However, I kind of like Linux because of its builtin package manager, and I have also noticed that Linux has more up-to-date interpreters. My Mac for example has Ruby 2.0.0, but my Ubuntu computer has Ruby 2.1.2. I've noticed the same for Perl and Python. Mac's Perl and Python interpreters are always slightly out of date. It appears that the various Linux teams try harder to make sure that their OS's contain more current interpreters.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Well.... anyhow, if anyone can provide some advice on doing a safe, effective backup in Ubuntu that would be great. I could use some guidance.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Thanks,</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Douglas.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Joshua Herman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zitterbewegung@gmail.com" target="_blank">zitterbewegung@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I wasn't saying you shouldn't go to the python meet up I was saying how I work through regular expressions.<div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 6:35 PM Lewit, Douglas <<a href="mailto:d-lewit@neiu.edu" target="_blank">d-lewit@neiu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">Hey Joshua,</font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Those are all good ideas, but sometimes it's fun to get ideas and examples from other programmers. That way I can "kill" two birds with one stone: 1) Learn Python, and 2) Meet some great new friends! </font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Joshua Herman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zitterbewegung@gmail.com" target="_blank">zitterbewegung@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The way I try to program regexs is half the time I google the desired result and use that since it may have been tested before and just use it. The other times I would basically create test cases in a tool that Carl mentioned and I generally have the regex examples cheat sheet open.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:03 PM sheila miguez <<a href="mailto:shekay@pobox.com" target="_blank">shekay@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Carl Karsten <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carl@personnelware.com" target="_blank">carl@personnelware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div>Here is a nice UI for experimenting <br><div><div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://regexr.com" target="_blank">http://regexr.com</a></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">neat<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I usually end up using a tool like that if I can't figure out why my expression isn't working as expected.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">oh and for the python part of this, when I have a particularly hairy expression, I like the re.VERBOSE option so I can do multiline definitions with comments.<br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:shekay@pobox.com" target="_blank">shekay@pobox.com</a></div></div>
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