> -Original Message-
> From: Simon Slater [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 4:43 PM
> To: Will H. Backman; misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Safe development
>
> Luckily, restoring is not something i've had to do too
> often so I don&#x
The manual pages of dump(8) in my FreeBSD 5.3 system mention that it
works with a snapshot (mksnap_ffs(8)) if asked to dump a live
filesystem.
OpenBSD doesn't seem to have snapshots as such...
So is dump safe to use when the system changes during its operation???
Anyway, I'm pretty happy about t
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> Of
> > Simon Slater
> > Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 1:09 PM
> > To: Stephan Wehner
> > Cc: misc@openbsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Safe development
> >
> > Using cvs to back up the system is going to be
> very
> > inefficie
> -Original Message-
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Of
> Simon Slater
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 1:09 PM
> To: Stephan Wehner
> Cc: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Safe development
>
> Using cvs to back up the system is goi
Using cvs to back up the system is going to be very
inefficient, especially with binary files. I'd suggest
going with your idea of a system snapshot before any
major system changes. A straightforward dump(8) and
restore(8) is easy to set up and your backed up data
can also be restored just by booti
On Friday 20 May 2005 03:59 am, Stephan Wehner wrote:
What am I trying to back up?
What happened to me was I was running Mepis, and did an apt-get xfce4 (I
think it was xfcr4). But then startx wouldn't work any longer. I thought
apt-get would be pretty safe...
Then I switched to FreeBSD and afte
subversion it then... binary diffs are there :)
--- Timothy Donahue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 20 May 2005 03:59 am, Stephan Wehner
> wrote:
> > What am I trying to back up?
> >
> > What happened to me was I was running Mepis, and
> did an apt-get xfce4
> > (I think it was xfcr4). But
On 5/20/05, Stephan Wehner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is recommended for bare-metal backups?
Never underestimate the power of dump(8) and restore(8).
-- ach
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 04:56:34PM -0700, Stephan Wehner wrote:
> What is recommended for bare-metal backups? Scenario: I build a new
> application, but something breaks and I want to revert back. I thought
> a neat way would be to have the whole system under version control.
> Can it be done relia
On Friday 20 May 2005 03:59 am, Stephan Wehner wrote:
> What am I trying to back up?
>
> What happened to me was I was running Mepis, and did an apt-get xfce4
> (I think it was xfcr4). But then startx wouldn't work any longer. I
> thought apt-get would be pretty safe...
> Then I switched to FreeBSD
What am I trying to back up?
What happened to me was I was running Mepis, and did an apt-get xfce4
(I think it was xfcr4). But then startx wouldn't work any longer. I
thought apt-get would be pretty safe...
Then I switched to FreeBSD and after a port-upgrade installed the new version of
firefox. T
On 5/19/05, Stephan Wehner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is recommended for bare-metal backups? Scenario: I build a new
> application, but something breaks and I want to revert back. I thought
> a neat way would be to have the whole system under version control.
> Can it be done reliably with o
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