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The Sunday 2003-11-02 at 13:22 -0000, LinuxWorld999 wrote:
Using the "System Backup" option under YaST2, several problems became apparent. The archive created was 7 GB in size. It could not be viewed as Konqueror complained that the archive could not be found. Running system restore under YaST2 was also a slow and painful process. For the moment, and this could be down to inexperience, this does not seem to be a useful strategy.
I know. And it has got to make a copy of everything that it is going to backup somewhere in /tmp, so it is easy enough to crash it if you don't have enough free space for this. It is only usefull if you only want to save the "system", not your data. Ie, you have to specify don't save "/home" and such. Right now I'm unsure, but I don't thinks it saves settings from one run tho the next. It also doesn't have a browse thing to select what not to save or save. It is lacking. One posibility about the size problem is to use the yast backup to simply create a list of files to save (it has that option), and then use a script to make the copy - I haven't tested this. Perhaps this way it doesn't create the autoinstall files.
The compression option is not being used as the experience so far has not been good.
Do you know you can create compressed CDs? They can be read on the fly, transparently, by the linux kernel, but the creation is a bit cumbersome. I do them sometimes as backup, with my own script (not good enough, I'm afraid). -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson