hi guy’s,
is there an easy way to back up the essential settings/configaration’s
You must decide what is “essential”. But most system settings are inside /etc. Thus /etc is something you should consider to backup regularly.
And the settiings for the different user specific settings for applications are inside the users home directory. Mostly in files and/or directories whwre the name starts with a . (dot). This is to not show these names in most listings to avoid pollution of that listings with filesnames not normaly important for the user (that is the names are not important normaly because the user creates/changes the contents with the application’s configuration tools and not manualy). Thus the users home directories or in fact* /home* should be something youy should consider to backup regularly, but I guess that was allready something you understood.
On Mon, 21 May 2012 19:26:02 +0530, hcvv <hcvv@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org>
wrote:
>
> You must decide what is “essential”. But most system settings are inside
> -/etc-. Thus -/etc- is something you should consider to backup
> regularly.
>
> And the settiings for the different user specific settings for
> applications are inside the users home directory. Mostly in files and/or
> directories whwre the name starts with a . (dot). This is to not show
> these names in most listings to avoid pollution of that listings with
> filesnames not normaly important for the user (that is the names are not
> important normaly because the user creates/changes the contents with the
> application’s configuration tools and not manualy). Thus the users home
> directories or in fact- /home- should be something youy should consider
> to backup regularly, but I guess that was allready something you
> understood.
>
if you’re familiar with git, you could create a (local) git repository
under /etc. after every change to any of your settings, either via sytem
updates or other changes, you would simply run “git add” and “git commit”
and then be able to restore the files under /etc to any of these
snapshots. if you’re not familiar with git already, i don’t know if it’s
worth the effort to get into it.
–
phani.
thank’s guy’s, iv’e got a direction now lol!