[newbie] Hows this for an idea for Mandrake.
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hows this for an idea for Mandrake.
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hows this for an idea for Mandrake.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 28 Jul 2002 10:15 am, frankie wrote: 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? I wrote a shell script which copies various files to a directory, then .tar.bz2.gpg's it, then copies it to a remote server. This does an excellent job without effort. The system configuration (services, security, configuration files) is fine and worth doing, but package configuration is another matter. The problem with Linux is choice: you can't assume people will use certain packages. I'm sure most use kmail or Evolution in some sense, but the percentage is definitely not as high as that of Windows users who use Outlook Express (from the contents of my mailbox, easily 95 per cent; there are progressively fewer and fewer people using Eudora, for one). drakbackup looks interesting though :) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9Q85JXzGCRjP1DsMRAnYCAJsGeoLx+K99e8+HjtDx/nw6x4/Q8wCfc9Mp x3rFLElPf2Q6zwWJD2YEJ6I= =1ung -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hows this for an idea for Mandrake.
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, 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? I like it! Especially if you had some control over what it looked for, say like a gui panel where you could enter in the services that you use, etc. rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Hows this for an idea for Mandrake.
a list of the things you can save pops up, and you tick the box's of those things that you want to keep.. the basic stuff would be: security. postfix. apache. kde gnome related apps. kmail mozilla etc etc.. just the usuauls... and any settings that are the defaults would not need to be saved.. Then we could all reinstall every 6 months and have the new install configured just as the old one was with no effort at all.. wonderful :-) now, how do we convince mandrake that its fantastic to have the latest version, but its a pain to have to reconfigure everything every 6 months to get it.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 9:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hows this for an idea for Mandrake. On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, 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? I like it! Especially if you had some control over what it looked for, say like a gui panel where you could enter in the services that you use, etc. rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
