Re: [opensuse-factory] Updating in general ?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 2008-06-18 a las 13:36 +0200, Erik jakobsen escribió: (you forgot to email to the list)
Advice #1: full backup first. Advice #2: full backup first.
(said by one that always upgrades ;-) )
Many thanks Carlos. What do you backup ?
Everything! :-) I rsync to an external HD. And I print the partition table, too, and fstab. - -- Saludos Carlos E.R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIWPaUtTMYHG2NR9URAsXSAKCClxpG78PlaVasRjQ8BVeitvhRvgCgjdhk o71vxVohZdOG82znl5L3wuE= =W+Qh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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El 2008-06-18 a las 13:36 +0200, Erik jakobsen escribió:
(you forgot to email to the list)
Advice #1: full backup first. Advice #2: full backup first.
(said by one that always upgrades ;-) )
Many thanks Carlos. What do you backup ?
Everything! :-)
I rsync to an external HD.
And I print the partition table, too, and fstab.
- -- Saludos Carlos E.R.
The partition table can be saved "dd if=/dev/sda of=/<external_HD/dir>/sda_mbr bs=512 count=1" /etc seems to change causing rsync a problem, so I "tar cjfv /<external_HD/dir>/etc.tar.bz2 /etc" Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-06-18 at 13:03 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote:
And I print the partition table, too, and fstab.
The partition table can be saved "dd if=/dev/sda of=/<external_HD/dir>/sda_mbr bs=512 count=1"
I still prefer paper, it works better for recovery problems. Plus, you are saving the MBR program, too.
/etc seems to change causing rsync a problem, so I "tar cjfv /<external_HD/dir>/etc.tar.bz2 /etc"
I don't follow you here. I backup everything, I restore everything, or as needed. I haven't had problems with "/etc". Tar is slower, specially if you want to see a single file. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIWPxctTMYHG2NR9URArSeAJsFXvkrOstM/6RSsaicvpCVfHZV7wCfbuNx TyscY7KXFNIkJhy9ri0qipQ= =sWTK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Wednesday 2008-06-18 at 13:03 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote:
And I print the partition table, too, and fstab.
The partition table can be saved "dd if=/dev/sda of=/<external_HD/dir>/sda_mbr bs=512 count=1"
I still prefer paper, it works better for recovery problems. Plus, you are saving the MBR program, too.
/etc seems to change causing rsync a problem, so I "tar cjfv /<external_HD/dir>/etc.tar.bz2 /etc"
I don't follow you here.
I backup everything, I restore everything, or as needed. I haven't had problems with "/etc". Tar is slower, specially if you want to see a single file.
This is going way back when I saw the problem, restoring /etc, some things didn't match up, perhaps differences in file requirements between the old install and the upgrade. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2008-06-19 at 02:44 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote:
/etc seems to change causing rsync a problem, so I "tar cjfv /<external_HD/dir>/etc.tar.bz2 /etc"
I don't follow you here.
I backup everything, I restore everything, or as needed. I haven't had problems with "/etc". Tar is slower, specially if you want to see a single file.
This is going way back when I saw the problem, restoring /etc, some things didn't match up, perhaps differences in file requirements between the old install and the upgrade.
Restoring /etc from one version to another is not advisable to be done directly: there may be changes in syntax, improvements, etc. A full backup is made to do a full restore, same version. Everything intact. Of course, it is also useful in case of a fresh install in order to see the old /etc and check how you had things configured last time. Sometimes you can copy the config, sometimes you have to modify them. So, it is always advisable both for upgrades or fresh installs. :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIWhrJtTMYHG2NR9URAvY/AJ9Jiio8Z3t151ZTx395Gcw07mV+yACeLHMh njzjageqsFcKArIOaVfWCqA= =nvpA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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