On 30/08/17 10:58 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I say not rpm for backups.
So: CPIO for backups is OK. CPIO plus metadata on where yto unpack it and scripts to tidly up and mechanisms to deal with possible overrights when doing a restore is not OK. Can you please explain what it is about RPM that makes it NOT an 'backup'? Can you please explain what the difference is, from the software-to-do-it point of view as opposed to the human-philosophical point of view, between a backup and an archive? If, for example, On the one hand ... I were to take a walk though my ~/Photogrpahs/ and package them up by project (as opposed to date) and CPIO the hierarchy, then add a file of 'metatdata' about the project, then lx all that Or on the other hand .... I were to take a walk though my ~/Photogrpahs/ and package them up by project (as opposed to date) and then use 'rpmbuild' to package it all up and use 'lx' to compress the contents and in each case, after step and repeat for each project, put them all a DVD and stick the DVD in my folder of same, and do this ech month, automating the same, Well what's the difference? Its the same tools, CPIO, a compressor such as LX, files, scripts. Right now, 'rpmbuild' is a binary. I'm sure that its antecedents were scripts or that it could be replaced with a script. That has happened back and forth with many tools -- I recall working with Henry Spenser back in 1982/83 to get the size of his UNIX on a PDP/44 down by converting some binaries to scripts. The Bourne shell of those days was very small and compact! Nowhere near as good as Perl for bit-twiddling, but still, when you have limited memory, roll-in/roll-out and limited disk (I suspect a target for this was the luggable LSI-11) its a viable stragey. Whether you are putting the RPM in a 'repository' or on a DVD is rather arbitrary, isn't it? I have 'backups' of many of the earlier releases of openSuse, some not available now on repositories, on DVDs. With RPMs. My reasoning is that if u package up the photo projects and stick them on a DVD and put them in long term safe store they are backups. Oh, and by the way, for the OP: http://dpk.io/pax Good comic, eh? -- 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