On Sunday 28 Jul 2002 10:15 am, frankie wrote: > Hi guys, > > We know that its always better to install rather then upgrade, > > But I get really sick of reinstalling endlessly to get the latest stuff.. > and I was thinking about that. > > Wouldn't it be a fantastic thing if Mandrake created an "Export system & > user Settings" drake tool.??? > > > and a drake import settings. this tool would go and collect settings from > running services, users and security, and you could save the config to a > floppy, wipe the drive, reinstall and insert the floppy and run the import > drake, which sets it all up for you again.. (that way you get to have the > latest config files, rather then keeping files like smb.conf and putting it > in the next version..) > > > what do you guys thing? is that a good idea or what? > > > > rgds > > Frank
Well there is already the little known drakbackup tool. It will save your /etc and /home in incremental backups to a file system, or nfs, or ftp It works pretty well apart from the daemon mode which has a bug. It is on the drakxtools RPM Having never had to use it to do a restore, I am not sure it could selectively restore an individual config file, but being written in a scripting language, it would not be difficult to add functionality to it. derek
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