On Tuesday 03 May 2005 01:37 am, Greg Wallace wrote:
Every time I have to recover my old 8.1 system from backup, I have to go back out to the web and pull down a large number of updates. Recently, I trashed it when I was trying to create a disaster recovery backup so I <big snip>
You should be able to run your current packages off to a CD or other location. I don't do that but I do use the packages on one machine to update others.... Here's the script I use: #!/bin/sh rsync -auvzr -e ssh <mastermachn>:/var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update/9.2/ /usr/local/update/i386/update/9.2/ (note, there are two lines to the above script... watchout for folding in your email program) The thing to note above are the directory structures. <mastermachn> is the machine that gets updated from SuSE sites directly. The /var/lib/YaST2........... structure is where the packages are kept (along with a lot of info about the updates) By copying that structure and its files to another machine, using the /usr/local/update/...... structure, I can point YOU to the copied structure using the "user defined" update site and can then update another machine without any more downloading of packages. Questions?