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|    Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Paul    |
|    Re: Best Backup tool for Home Directory    |
|    18 Nov 25 04:48:48    |
      From: ldo@nz.invalid              On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:39:09 -0500, Paul wrote:              > "Root" can be evidence of a mount point, where the item is not mounted,       > and the mount point is showing through.       > with any luck, you can't write to the raw mount point and deceive       > yourself as to where the files are actually going :-)              That’s actually a good setting for the mount point directory. It means       that, if the volume is not mounted, you get errors trying to put anything       there, instead of putting the files on the wrong volume and have them       disappear when the right one is restored.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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