On 2018-01-18 21:23, Richard Brown wrote:
On 18 January 2018 at 20:24, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
I know two possibilities.
One is install fresh from YaST, then overwrite it from backup. I have never tried and I have my doubts. Maybe overwrite using that send-receive trick. The assumption is that YaST will create the proper volumes. Oh, wait, send-receive only copies the root subvolume.
The other is to recreate from dd image. Maybe clonezilla, but it is not a true imager, as it doesn't image the boot sectors (it reinstalls grub instead).
or maybe you should consider the 3rd option..you know..the one extensively documented on the openSUSE wiki
Oh my... Sorry, but this is largely hard to digest. It is not one method, it is several. Maybe if it were broken in several articles, one per method :-? It talks about rear - it is the first time I see this, so I must investigate more about it. It mentions rear-SUSE and autoyast. It also says that they are difficult tools to use. Some of these many be only for SLES, it is not clear on the article. There is a script, actually three or four that I don't know if they are the same script, they are too big and difficult to analyze, and written for a particular version of SLES. The basic information we asked is missing: How to create on a new empty btrfs partition the exact volume structure required in each openSUSE release, because they are different on each release.
On 01/18/2018 08:14 PM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
I'm missing instructions how to recreate bootable openSUSE installation from /mnt/backup ...
jdd's original post clearly stated that he was NOT interested in fully restoring a system, just wanting to backup the rootfs to have a reference for things like config files
It was a fair request, simple, and yet unique enough that there is no clear documentation for that scenario
Andrei your contribution to the thread is unwelcome, unhelpful to the original poster, and pointless to the wider world in the light of the facts that full system recovery is not the context of jdd's support request and that full system recovery options are extensively documented.
Andrei comments are very welcome by others, though. Threads have a life of their own, people add more questions to them, and in the end we all learn, including of course the OP. Sorry, but we have asked many times for that information. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)