Dne Pá 28. listopadu 2014 19:47:07, Anton Aylward napsal(a):
On 11/28/2014 07:07 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2014-11-28 17:53, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 28/11/14 a las 13:21, Vojtěch Zeisek escribió:
Hi, this made me really angry. Package yast2-backup is missing for 13.2: http://software.opensuse.org/package/yast2-backup Why? This was one of the most useful YaST modules! Is there any replacement?
It had no maintainer AFAIK. Yast-snapper is probably its successor.
No way. There is no relation whatsoever between a backup, stored on different media, and a snapshot, which by definition is on the same media, and thus may have been destroyed.
YaST backup could, in theory, recover from bare bones.
+1
Snapper style 'snapshots' are an artefact of BtrFS's COW mechanisms. They are quite different from an 'snapshot' for backup purposes such as might be taken with a LVM partition copy, a rsync copy, or as Vojtěch mentions, a TAR copy.
The idea that backups are not important as Cristian implies is quite unacceptable.
I asked about it in #yast IRC (they don't have manpower to maintain it and they don't feel to be experts in backup field) and they suggested to use ReaR (there is also YaST ReaR). This tool looks very good. Other tools, IMHO more suitable more for data then system configuration are Amanda, Bacula and, for example, Duplicity. But only ReaR seems to replace part of YaST Backup functionality related to backup and restore of system configuration. So there are some replacements. It will require some testing to change the work-flow, thought... Vojtěch -- Vojtěch Zeisek Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux http://www.opensuse.org/ http://trapa.cz/