Le 18/01/2018 à 21:23, Richard Brown a écrit :
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
exactly. Two things: * when I have a disaster, I like better rebuild a system from scratch with the most up to date openSUSE version. During my usual work, I very often try applications and don't like them or don't like them anymore, so starting from scratch is a good way of cleaning :-) * recovering from disaster as documented need very cautious preliminary work that is aimed to system that have to recover fast. Not my case (I have more than one computer I can use :-)
It was a fair request, simple, and yet unique enough that there is no clear documentation for that scenario
with ext4 it's pretty simple, just rsync the / with -x but rsync do not cope well with .snapshots (I just discovered this folder :-(), but I could get a pretty good result copying / with dolphin, but excluding a lot of things, liken /sys, /proc/ /dev/ /.snapshot, /run, /windows... thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org