On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 22:38 -0500, zip wrote: > I was hoping someone could give me a few pointers. I'm trying to work > out how to, given an exact list of packages, perform a yum install to a > clean filesystem. > > Background, I'm trying to work out a storage space efficient backup / > restore process where I capture 3 lists: Not exactly an answer to your question, but at some point I needed to solve a slightly different problem, but it was also about rather space-efficient back-up and super-fast restore, but super-slow backup creation. Basically, I was using the bmap idea which I implemented in the bmap-tool: URL Now, you have your disk, and you want to create its backup. If you can make its sparse image, you have a perfect back-up! The image contains only the real data, holes do not consume space. Restoring it is super-fast, and you cannot possibly make it faster. I am deliberately being vague, assuming that if there is an interest, you can check the URL, which contains the bmap idea, and describes what bmap-tool can do for you. And then you could ask more questions. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
