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The Monday 2007-11-19 at 14:29 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
There is a Backup facility in Yast2.
Does anyone have experience using it and/or any comments about it?
I used it about two years ago, not recently.
What it did was a rpm check to see what files in the rpm database had
changed, and made a backup of them, in tar.gz form (a variant). It did not
include, for instance, new configuration files.
It was thus a diferential system backup (a nice idea), but incomplete, and
thus, dangerous in the false feeling of security it gave.
It was also slow.
It had a tick box to backup also everything, and you could list
directories to include, and perhaps to exclude (no nice gui browser at
all, you had to hand type the paths). The problem is that first
it copied the entire tree somewhere under /tmp, meaning you needed as much
free space there as the raw uncompressed backup would use - and it crashed
otherwise, after hours of work.
I don't know how things may have improved: I hope they did. I should try
it one day, I think...
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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