On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:54:24AM -0700, bruce wrote: [snip] > it would actually be helpful to be able to make sure the base OS and the > supporting apps are properly captured as one part of the application, with > the other data/apps on the system being "captured" in a separate part of the > process. This kind of segmentation would actually allow us to restore a > machine to it's base config without needing to be concerned with the rest of > the apps that a user may have added to the machine. It would also provide a > method of restoring the other apps if we needed to.... > > we're willing to consider commercial apps, but we would prefer open source. > any suggestions would be appreciated.... Do yourself a favor and segment your system on separate drives: system stuff on one or more, and your add-ons on one or more drives. Not only does this make it a piece of cake to upgrade but it also minimizes the danger of a catastrophic drive failure taking it all out. As for backup snapshots, go to freshmeat.net and do a search for rsnapshot, one of the better rsync-based snapshot apps. -- Jack Bowling mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
