On Wednesday 10 May 2006 08:39, Jerry Feldman wrote:
That is system management issue. If you do not make backups, you risk losing your data. It's just that simple.
I concur. Is it better to steer newcomers towards the 'safer' method or to 'cast caution to the winds' and leave the tools decision to them?
For the most part, a backup/delete/recreate/restore has some benefits in that you can change the file system. In the case of ReiserFS you can upgrade from 3.5 to 3.6 or to 4.0. Or you can change from ReiserFS to Ext3 or JFS.
I'd forgotten to mention this. Excellent point.
In some cases, where I needed to resize the root file system, a backup was not a good idea. If it gets screwed up, my backup is always the install media.
We definitely see eye to eye here. I keep a special directory populated with installation notes, copies of scripts and configuration files and even some of the more obscure/unique packages in case I need to "restore" the system via a fresh installation. Carl