On 2016-12-31 21:29, Richard Brown wrote:
On 31 December 2016 at 21:14, Carlos E. R.
wrote: Another issue: there is no known way to rebuild the btrfs root structure needed for any version of openSUSE from scratch, in order to restore from backup media. or clone the installation. One needs to install again.
Sure there is and no you don't need to reinstall again
dd works fine with btrfs,
If you have an image. Not if you have an rsync or other type of standard backup.
but if you'd prefer to use native tools
There was a recent thread about this and the conclusion was there were no tools. Just a list of tools and a sequence of things to do, error prone. No single tool to create a root in one single command. Perhaps you'd like to join that thread and discus it there. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)