-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 14/01/2020 16.11, cagsm wrote: | Hi fellow lists participants, I have a hardware breakdown of an | old HDD, and I need to revive a system/functionality really quick. | I am a noob unfortunately when it comes to backuping/restore suse | in simple ways especially with keeping config, users etc. | | I can still read kind of okay the old /etc/ and basically the root | partition. I have already a new SSD at hand so I could quickly | setup a clean leap 15.1 but how to make use of old config files | instead of configuring all over again. | | especially keeping network interfaces information, some dhcp | server config, some usernames. | | | Cloning/rescuing the whole old HDD currently is estimated via | clonezilla for another 3hours or more, so thats why I am wondering | if i could just make use of the /etc/ folder and maybe others you | guys hint that I would need. Frankly, it is easier and more reliable to restore the image. If the backup is not fresh, you can copy on top those files you recovered, comparing if they are newer. | | Can leap 15.1 installer make use of /etc/ and other dirs when they | would be present even if the system would be incomplete No. It recovers just a few files, like the list of users and passwords, and fstab. The only method I know would be to do a fresh install with the same packages, and then copy the "other files" on top. Might not work well. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCXh3uiQAKCRC1MxgcbY1H 1QyGAKCFLJ9tI88UlAoB0xKfXj/iOhSsngCfTrnIASBCnG3YWwf4IBlEESWBsas= =94CU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org