On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 15:57 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> 3. how to revert back to old OS, for example, in my case i upgraded my >> system from 6.0.4 to Wheezy/SID now want to revert things back. > > If your repositories are explicit for stable, than there shouldn't > happen an upgrade to testing or unstable. > > To restore your Debian stable in the future, IMO the easiest way is to > do a backup before upgrading and to restore from such a backup if > needed. > > You can backup any Linux from another Linux, e.g. from a live media, if
> you're root and run > > cd /path/to/debian_stable > tar czf backup_name.tar.gz * will clonezilla live CD work in this case? as i am using it very often and a bit useto with it. > > Globbing (here using *) and following links shouldn't be an issue for > your setup. And IMO having several backups/snapshots is more safe than now this snapshots point raising one more question in my mind. did you means snapshots like XP and Other windows OS supports. for example. i can make a snapshot before installing any service like apache , samba or anything. and after installing , at the end i realize that i messed up the whole box then i can revert my system back to that particular snapshot and i will be at the old stage. can i use snapshot in this context ( sorry for the newbie Questions but i am confused with Microsoft and Linux as there are same services in both OS and working entirely in different way) > syncing backups. Btw. some dirs can be excluded, but IMO this makes a > backup unneeded complicated. > > - Ralf > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1337945545.2251.74.camel@precise > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAGWVfMk8mzQ+5r=58e-L0TRfUA-M7DX4ojp5Ab=jz6f4ad8...@mail.gmail.com
