RE: Backups for laptops

[Shriman Gurung <sg_(_at_)_dataconnection_(_dot_)_com>]

For the data, I agree you can be in a bind.  For the OS,
it's muchlke you say.  I just re-install and blat my config back.
(I'm dual booting win2K/obsd on a 6Gb IDE disk inside a tecra
8100.)  It's only feasible because 

-- openbsd is excellent at separating config files from apps
-- the installation of the OS is so quick.

If I had more failures and less time I would make my config 
files into a pkg and just blat that onto the disk like I 
do with my solaris boxes.

Patches and kernel cfg are the obvious exception, but not
too painful.

s

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Pennock [mailto:phil_(_dot_)_pennock_(_at_)_globnix_(_dot_)_org]
Sent: 20 May 2001 07:38
To: misc_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org
Subject: Re: Backups for laptops


[snip]
... unless
you go for "this is OS, install this.  Then these packages which you had
before.  Then this script creates backups of /etc, /root & /home".  This
is one option -- do people use this?

[snip]