-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 September 2003 07:38 am, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:02:03AM -0400, Michael Fratoni wrote: > > > I also find out that in SUSE Linux there's a time-stamped backups > > > of the RPM database in /var/adm/backup/rpmdb and that you can just > > > copy it to /var/lib/rpm, and everything gets back to normal! Anyway > > > thanks a lot! > > > > Hrmm, not a bad idea. Simple enough to accomplish via a cron job. > > You'd want to add some error checks and remove older backups, but > > basically this should work: > > Personally, I find this to be a bad idea. Everything needs to be > backed up, and that's a user's responsibility. First the distributor > decides you need rpmdb backed up, and then the password and group > files, and then configuration files, and then they don't stop until you > no space for your backups.
I don't disagree. > A good administrator will take backups of the important stuff. In my > daily backups, I include /var. There are plenty of cases where backups aren't done, or aren't done often enough. (Think home user) I wasn't advocating Red Hat including a function to back up the rpm database (or anything else), just a quick script for a user to do it manually. Sure, you back up your data, and I back up mine. There are plenty of cases where users don't create backups of anything at all. In such a situation, a user created cron job to make backups of the rpm database can't be a bad thing. If they loose a disk, they are sunk anyway, but if they hose the rpm database, recovery is as simple as a 'cp' command. - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0|9 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/en/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/YTHLn/07WoAb/SsRAtlpAJkB8rQITL/rp7+powgmIaxTZbEEEQCgq9NZ rwvjIZk4ApKRwC8NqCvhhJY= =f3Wi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
