From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from kappaluppa.com (matthew.kappaluppa.com [208.42.238.121] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4FMhqst001657 for ; Sun, 15 May 2005 22:43:52 GMT Received: from [67.174.119.44] (c-67-174-119-44.hsd1.co.comcast.net [67.174.119.44]) by kappaluppa.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B05F329B20A for ; Sun, 15 May 2005 15:45:43 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <4287D1A4.30802@crystaldawn.net> Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 16:48:04 -0600 From: Ryan User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050403) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue) References: <200505151718.06501.vapier@gentoo.org> <4287BF21.50005@people.pl> <4287CE08.3080907@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4287CE08.3080907@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a8d6c247-bef5-4440-b155-ea50af437840 X-Archives-Hash: 1782aab30c92daab8c46f214640d68ae Heres the easiest way to do your "erescue" dd if=/dev/hda of=backup.iso "Three days later: AAAHHH! I blew up the /usr dir!" mkdir /backup mount -o loop backup.iso /backup cp -f -r -a /backup/usr / Pretty simple no? And there you have it. Backup shouldnt really be the burdon of developers. This should be up to the user in my opinion. If you break something, then its your fault for not having a backup. Of coarse this is just ONE way to backup. There are a bazillion ways to do it. The choice is up to you. Besides, if you are running the unstable branch and you DONT have a backup? You deserve what you get for not having backed up :P Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: > > >Use `quickpkg` before dangerous updates/merges. If something brakes - > >untar the package. > > > Doesn't work too well when tar's broken too. =) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list