On Sunday 17 April 2005 10:49 am, Scott Leighton wrote:
On Sunday 17 April 2005 10:29 am, Paul Cartwright wrote:
just curious, when you say backup entire system, what do you mean, and what did you use?
I use two different ones, dar and backup2l . Just recently started using dar and may switch to it entirely, just haven't decided. As for what I mean by backing up the entire system, just what I said, dar creates a backup of everything on the system for me. It's on your SuSE CD/DVD, check it out. I have it dump the backup slices to a networked Buffalo Linkstation. Every once and a while I burn DVDs of the slices.
usr/local ?? help me out here, I have been backing up /etc and /home, what do I need from /usr/local ? ?
Well behaved applications that you may install off the net or elsewhere will generally install themselves to /usr/local so by preserving /usr/local, you will not have to reinstall all those applications after a fresh install.
Either way seems more painful to me than it should be. I really hate to use Windows as an example, but OS upgrades in Windows did not break a bunch of stuff on me like the Linux upgrades seem to do.
um, well... I beg to differ... XP SP1 broke a bunch of stuff on my setup. I've had to back out a few others in my time, but lets not talk M$ today :)
:) OK, agreed. No win talk today <g>
Scott
-- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-20a-default x86_64 I recently tried kdar and it seems to work for /home (thats all I tryed so far). Any comments on it as I only have a CDRW, no writeable DVD. Also if I backup with Kdar and go to 9.3 (on 9.1 now) will it restore? -- Russ