Thanks for that info, I'll give this a try.
I must admit I thought I had sorted it out at one point this afternoon.
I went in and manually edited root.local and added the line
I /root/*
After this, when I ran lrcfg and elected to do a full backup of root, /root
was included in the .lrp package (confirmed with tar). However, when I
rebooted, the changes were still lost.
When I looked closely at what was going on I could see that with the way I
had lrpkg.conf set-up on the floppy, I didn't have an entry for the root
package. Thus although I could backup root.lrp, it wasn't being reloaded
when the system booted. I corrected this by adding root to the front of the
list of packages to be loaded. Unfortunately I now have two root.lrp
entries in the list of loaded packages (presumably because root is always
loaded from the CDROM??) and the effect of this is to prevent any backups
at all! Whenever I elect to backup a package (full or partial) I get an
error about not being able to mount the backup device and the backup fails.
I think I could do with a bit more documentation on what all the different
flavours of files in /var/lib/lrpkg mean (e.g. .list, .conf, .local) I know
what .local does, but I'm not sure about the rest.
Gareth
Robert Williams
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Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] How to backup
/root on Dachstein-CD and need http cache
09/01/2002 18:18
Hi All,
I had the same trouble with baking up /root. In past distributions it
was backed up with root.lrp. I am not sure where or if it is backed
up now. Regardless, every time I updated root.lrp I had to reinstall
my files so I rolled my own lrp to back up just the /root directory.
Please feel free to use it. I named it rootdir.lrp and you can get it
at
http://home.pacbell.net/rcw1/lrp/file_index.html
It is set to back up all of /root except /root/tmp. Please note that
the first time you install it it will overwrite your /root folder
with mine. The best way to install it would be to Move your files to
/tmp Load rootdir.lrp manually using lrpkg -i . Then move your files
back into root and then backup rootdir.lrp. I have not tested this
install method but it sounds like it would work. Of corse you hove a
backup :).
Hope this helps
Robert Williams
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