-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2008-06-24 at 15:03 +0200, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
On Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 18:25:09, Mohit Verma wrote:
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Using rpm has nothing to do with backup at all.
thats why i want the rpm packages to be backed up rather than the installed files.
You might want to re-think and think trough what you want to achive.
If you want to mirror stuff you install, for re-use later or something, you know the solutions now.
If you want to have a backup of your system the last thing you want to backup is rpm files you install. Rather the opposite is true. You most likely want to backup the stuff that belongs to no package and/or changes after package installation.
Mohit, Have a look at the Yast backup/restore modules. It saves a list of the installed rpms so that you can rebuild the install, plus a copy of modified files of those rpms. The resulting system backup is small in size, but slow to restore: it is rather an automated reinstall. And you need to store the updates rpms somewhere else or download them again. The typical backup solution stores everything on disk, which is safer and faster to restore, but uses a lot more space in the backup media. What nobody does, AFAIK, is reconstruct the original rpms from the files on disk, as a backup solution. It could be possible, perhaps, but I have never heard of it. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIYPwxtTMYHG2NR9URAkEnAJ97xsKqRVEXreBmdowKIWep525n6ACgjalv gZ2tMOv02sGnd4/tqaZ12WM= =SirX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org