FC6 equivalent to Windows System Restore

[David-Paul Niner]

All of those are great utilities for backing up a system.

A (relatively) inexpensive system-wide backup option is to use dd or  
rsync to backup your system's hard drives to an external drive.  It  
gets a little hairy b/c you have to ask yourself how much you could  
afford for your system to be down, and based upon that you can decide  
whether to back up system binaries and libraries and other things that  
could be restored from the original install CD + yum updates.

My advice to someone new to Linux as far as backing up data goes is to  
ALWAYS backup your home directory and to keep careful notes about any  
changes you make to the system so you can restore those changes if  
necessary.

Hope this helps a bit.

Reference: man dd, man rsync

DP

Quoting linux <linux at celticblues.com>:

> tar I knew about... the rest no... Yes this is what I was pretty much
> looking for... other than my $HOME, what are the important bits to
> backup?
> Thanks,
> Ed
>
> Matt Morgan wrote:
>> On 12/6/06, linux <linux at celticblues.com> wrote:
>>> I finially have my FC6 installation the way i like it.... I am sure at
>>> some point in the future, I am going to mess it up though.  In Windows
>>> there is the System Restore capability.  How can I achieve the same
>>> effect under FC6.  That is, roll back changes that did not work out the
>>> way I assumed etc.   Basically, undoing dumb stuff.
>>>
>>> The best way would be 'Don't do dumb stuff" but being rather new to
>>> linux, the fact that what I am about to do is dumb, does not occur to me
>>> until after I am through doing it....
>>
>> You don't really need a "system restore" in linux; settings are all
>> stored in files you can back up. There's no registry or anything like
>> that. Since you're new to linux, let me direct you to
>>
>> dd
>> tar
>> pax
>> star
>>
>> which are all ways to create backups easily. Might not really be what
>> you're looking for, or maybe you already know about them, but I'm
>> pointing them out just in case.
>>
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