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["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Tuesday 2008-06-24 at 15:03 +0200, Henne Vogelsang wrote:

> On Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 18:25:09, Mohit Verma wrote:

...

> Using rpm has nothing to do with backup at all.
>
> > thats why i want the rpm packages to be backed up rather than the installed
> > files.
>
> You might want to re-think and think trough what you want to achive.
>
> If you want to mirror stuff you install, for re-use later or something, you
> know the solutions now.
>
> If you want to have a backup of your system the last thing you want to
> backup is rpm files you install. Rather the opposite is true. You most
> likely want to backup the stuff that belongs to no package and/or changes
> after package installation.

Mohit,

Have a look at the Yast backup/restore modules.

It saves a list of the installed rpms so that you can rebuild the 
install, plus a copy of modified files of those rpms. The resulting 
system backup is small in size, but slow to restore: it is rather an 
automated reinstall.

And you need to store the updates rpms somewhere else or download them 
again.


The typical backup solution stores everything on disk, which is safer and 
faster to restore, but uses a lot more space in the backup media.


What nobody does, AFAIK, is reconstruct the original rpms from the files 
on disk, as a backup solution. It could be possible, perhaps, but I have 
never heard of it.


- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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