[opensuse] Upgrade to SUSE 10.2 - where are the backup files?
Hello people, we' ve done an upgrade to SUSE 10.2 from 10.1. During the process, the installer asked if we wanted to backup circa 600 libraries-system files, just in case we wanted a restore solution. But after the installation, the root / partition has lost 2 GB of free space. The reason is probably the aforementioned backup files. If this is true, we would like to delete these files. So the question: Does anybody know where these backed up files reside in the filesystem? Or is there any graphical procedure (YaST?) to erase a restore point and free some HD space? We thought they (the backup files) would be RPMs and tried find /var *.rpm as root with no success. Thanks, Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Not sure exactly where or what they might be, but It probably didn't do a "restore point". It probably just copied / renamed / tar-gzipped the old libs as you mentioned. These are probably in the /usr/lib or other lib dirs. As root, I would do a search like this. find / -name "*circa*" 2>&1 /dev/null the find command takes 2 parms in this case. The first is what dir to start in. In this case it is "/" which is the root (contains all other dirs) Then the second parm is the name mask to look for (case sensitive) so it will return the location and name of any file or folder that had the lower case "circa" in it. the redirection at the end (2>&1), tell the shell to not show any error messages. See what that comes up with. Once you know the location, then you will be able to erase or backup to different media, etc. B-) On Friday 25 May 2007 7:43 am, Dimitris Kalamaras wrote:
Hello people,
we' ve done an upgrade to SUSE 10.2 from 10.1.
During the process, the installer asked if we wanted to backup circa 600 libraries-system files, just in case we wanted a restore solution.
But after the installation, the root / partition has lost 2 GB of free space. The reason is probably the aforementioned backup files. If this is true, we would like to delete these files.
So the question: Does anybody know where these backed up files reside in the filesystem? Or is there any graphical procedure (YaST?) to erase a restore point and free some HD space?
We thought they (the backup files) would be RPMs and tried find /var *.rpm as root with no success.
Thanks,
Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2007-05-25 07:43, Dimitris Kalamaras wrote:
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We thought they (the backup files) would be RPMs and tried find /var *.rpm as root with no success. They're not backed up as RPMs.
Look in /var/adm/YaST/backup/. -- Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. -- HG Wells -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Brad Bourn
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Dimitris Kalamaras