On 07/02/2015 07:22 AM, ellanios82 wrote:
Because recovery from a system crash is such a hard experience ,
When I've had a catastrophic crash, that is a completely unrecoverable disk fatality, I use it s an excuse to install a completely new system, an upgrade. Apart from a backup of /home and /srv, my key backup is all the config in /etc. There are very few programs outside the regular set I use and those are well noted. Backing up the RPM database and the thread we've been feeding you, which I think has been adequate for those of us who have responded, but we can't tell your level of technical expertise in these matters, is not an approach I would bother with. I can see it, yes; I can see the point of it yes; but Its not a path I'd follow because my set of "other" programs is dictated more by the extra repositories I have. Backing up the list of repositories is simpler. We've been assuming, probably based on your previous posts, that you have a basic technical knowledge. That last post of min with the rpm command that produced both name and url can be used in a simple shell script that read the two elements on each line and uses them as parameters to zypper. This is shell programming 101. ============================= Now let me go into "Consulting mode" and rather than answer the question as you asked it, try to solve the problem you have that so far you haven't actually described, only hinted at. You talk of a "system crash" without saying what has actually happened. Of you have certain classes of "crash" then its to late to extract anything from the ROM database unless you happen to have a full backup of same and another system on which to restore/extract it. So why don't you describe to us in as much detail as you can what happened, what the 'system crash' amounts to. Perhaps there is some other avenue you can pursue that we might think of. =========================== I must say that backing up the RPM database and the matching URLs as per my last message is a novel idea. I might just do that :-) -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org