On Monday 18 August 2008 09:00:27 pm Henare Degan wrote:
I don't mean to rub salt into the wound but shouldn't the backup be a recent copy of your system, and therefore not need an OS reinstall or major patching? ;)
The problem is that I did have backup, except for the /sys folder and some other key files. Sure, I overwrote the root partition with the backup information, but upon attempting a reboot the dmesg syslogs started piling up and finally boot came to a halt. It was very unnerving to watch this and realize that doing a cp -ruvp or cp -a command won't cut the mustard as far as having a system with enough integrity to come back to life. It didn't help to have the inodes clobbered, as I had to totally reformat the partition then attempt the backup. So I was forced to do a reinstall, then restore the home and 5 other partitions, then do recompiles for the special software such as GP-Pari. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org