jdd said the following on 12/26/2011 06:46 PM:
Le 26/12/2011 22:19, Anton Aylward a écrit :
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The problem is never the backup, but the restore. In my experience, cases where you simply restore a backup never happen.
When hardware fail, the new one is never identical. Even apparently identical (byte wise) backup do not restore on the very hardware it was done - only a ghost will work and on a remote server it's often not possible (my last reinstall what due to this problem - I could never restore the system partition, backed on the data one :-(.
Back in the bad old SCO days when disks were small, yes it was a problem. These days with Big Disks the solution is to create a LVM partition that is a staging area and restore into that. Now if you did absolute backups you are still buqqered. Learn not to do that. But if you have relative backups you can restore that old "etc/" onto a scratch fs and then selectively move what you need, things like /etc/hosts, the password/group files and other things you have customised, across to the real /etc.
I now have to adapt a 11.2 working system to systemd. I only have to take care of the virtual machines restart as this changed, but who knows what will change next time.
That's why I have a scrappy old SallyAnne Special with a scrappy old disk and lots of nfs mounts and a working and stable Fedora 15 with a working and stable version of SystemD (all those things people are stumbling over on 12.1 I have working fine on this F-16 (soon to be F-16)) so I can learn how it is supposed to work on a system that does work, rather than battle a system (12.1) that doesn't work. There are many things about Fedora I don't like, YUM being there out in front! I'll be glad when openSuse 12.2 comes out :-) In the mean time I can decompress with a working fine 11.4 system on my 2005 vintage Compaq desktop-replacement laptop.
and I don't have the choice to keep the old config, 11.2 is no more maintained
You could have upgraded to 11.4. That would have been smoother, less traumatic. The 11.4 works well and runs the latest kde :-) -- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas A. Edison -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org