JannaB wrote:
> Can't I just copy the entire filesystem off to a remote hard drive
> (assuming I am logged on as root)? And if nevessary, restore it from
> same? Isn;t that one of the advantages of linux to windows?
Janna, i ask one more time what is you are trying to do....your first
post asked if Linux has "a counterpart to Xp/Vista's "System Restore,"
functionality?" and, i admitted no knowledge of what Redmond's "System
Restore" can do..
Mr. Rob answered my question with "The poster just wants to know if
there is a possibility to undo recent changes to the system, and there
isn't."
is he correct on what you want to do? is that what you are looking
for? does the M$ "System Restore" give you a list and you can click to
go back an hour/day/week what?? your new question (above) seems to
indicate you want a full disk snapshot of now places somewhere else
that you can restore later..
have you yet looked at YaST's "System Backup" and "System Restoration"
[go Yast > System > System Backup/Restoration]??
there is some, but not a lot of really good documentation in the
community's
http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Modules/System_Backup, but
nothing where the Restoration page should be (maybe you wanna flesh
that out?)
there is probably other documentation but i've not looked for
it...what is there states: "If you need advanced features, such as
incremental backup or network backup, you should use an expert tool."
generically pointing to the thousands of other possibilities which
exist...but apparently only you and Mr. Rob know exactly what you are
trying to do..
if it is just as you now say "copy the entire filesystem off to a
remote hard drive...And if nevessary, restore it from same" then maybe
one of these
man dd
man cp
man rsync
may have your answer--*or* if you want incremental backups you may
need a different answer...there are more ways to do that than you can
shake a stick at.....and, maybe you want an automatic, constantly
updating, off site, internet based solution like
http://www.getdropbox.com/ or
http://www.rsync.net/
i'll let you and Mr. Rob work it out from here..
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