Le 06/04/2015 20:45, don fisher a écrit :
My initial goal was to be able to have two identical systems. During the course of operation, numerous packages were added or updated which did not made a system reinstall appear a simple, valid option.
it's valid, but not simple :-( Just a detail, I got the feeling that your backup drive was bootable in p)lace of the old one, is this true? or is it necessary to restore the system in case of failure? because in the latter case there are solution using less volume on disk (like using the rpm database to rebuild the distribution and only backup the config folders. I also have some questions about database and web applications, but I guess you don't have a web server on this computer :-). I would like to have only to copy the /etc folder to keep the config, but part of it is not in this folder, some being in the database (in /var), some other in htdocs, some other who knows where :-). also I think you had questions about btrfs subvolumes, I didn't read an answer thanks jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org