On 04/06/2015 02:10 PM, jdd wrote:
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
I made my USB drive bootable. If the machine died I wanted to be able to boot the USB drive and restore the system. Tell me more about the RPM database. I assumed the existence of, but did not search out, a place where a record of all of the packages existing on my system were stored. Please tell me were it is. USB drive are almost free now, so I didn't care about the space it required to make my backup. I do not recall the questions about btrfs subvolumes. It was pointed out to me that there were two ways of looking at the volume, via / and via the subvolums. btrfs puts the data in the correct subvolumes if the data is written to root. So I basically ignore the subvolumes. As far as I can tell there purpose is to isolate sections of the filesystem so that snapshots will work, but I have them disabled anyway. Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org