On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 12:00 -0400, linux fan wrote: > Speaking of backups and rescue disks, I am using an "rsync snapshots" > style of backup. It does not compress, yet it can save multiple > "copies" of a system at different points in time using remarkable > little disk space. Any "copy" can be rsynced to any mount point and so > I can recover or load up any system "copy" in around 20 minutes.
I quite like an idea Fedora are working on - if installed to a btrfs partition, use it's snapshot support to provide an easy rollback option when installing updates. I've been meaning to try that approach myself, since I've trashed more than a few systems while trying to update them. Simon.
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