Hi
Some people say it is better to do a new install than a upgrade. FOr no specific reason I agree with them (I have not enough expertise to agree or disagree, but lets ignore that.)
So I want to install 11.4.
What should I back up?
Suggestions in general?
Bugs with 11.4?
thanks
Hello let’s answer to your questions
For this question there is no answer. I suggest you to save all your files.
So far I have no bugs.
Make a install of 11.4 and we are here.
On 04/18/2011 12:36 PM, ClrScr wrote:
>
> What should I back up?
> Suggestions in general?
at the least back up your /home directory, which if you have a normal
install will include all of your music, photos, movies, letters to Aunt
Tilley and emails from HotFoxy…
and, if you have a database or (say) and apache set up outside of your
/home, only you know about that…and, not anyone here can recommend
what we don’t know you have…
some folks suggest other directories (like /etc which holds most of the
working system configs
some folks might suggest you do a full disk backup–just in case you
don’t like what you see and wish you had your old system back, easily!
there are probably 200 questions like yours in these fora, and each will
draw a variety of opinions, so a good google
like say http://tinyurl.com/3q6v8pf
will bring a large variety of answers…all either exactly fitting your
needs, or not.
> Bugs with 11.4?
of course! read around in the fora here…there are plenty…
currently 11.4 has 1228 bugs (while 11.3 has 1252) see:
http://tinyurl.com/392jnb
and, if you go here you can read all about’em http://tinyurl.com/423cae5
btw: if 11.3 is working for you, why change? some say: If it ain’t broke
don’t fix it.
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CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[openSUSE 11.3 + KDE4.5.5 + Thunderbird3.1.8 via NNTP]
A Penguin Being Tickled - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GILA0rrR6w
On 2011-04-18 12:36, ClrScr wrote:
> What should I back up?
All, full backup - so that if 11.4 doesn’t work well for you, you can go
back in minutes.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
Backup “/home” and any system configuration files that you have changed (you might need to make similar config changes on the new system).
I have “/home” as a separate partition, so I normally don’t need to back that up.
I use “rcs” for keeping track of configuration changes. So I have a directory “/home/RCS.etc”, and then I make the symbolic link:
ln -s /home/RCS.etc /etc/RCS
That way, I can keep a log of config change for “/etc” files, but have the log file actually kept in “/home”.
Before installing the new system, I also backup “/etc/passwd”, “/etc/group”, “/etc/shadow” and my host key files in “/etc/ssh”.
[QUOTE=DenverD;2325891]On 04/18/2011 12:36 PM, ClrScr wrote:
>
> What should I back up?
> Suggestions in general?
at the least back up your /home directory, which if you have a normal
install will include all of your music, photos, movies, letters to Aunt
Tilley and emails from HotFoxy…
and, if you have a database or (say) and apache set up outside of your
/home, only you know about that…and, not anyone here can recommend
what we don’t know you have…
some folks suggest other directories (like /etc which holds most of the
working system configs
some folks might suggest you do a full disk backup–just in case you
don’t like what you see and wish you had your old system back, easily!
there are probably 200 questions like yours in these fora, and each will
draw a variety of opinions, so a good google
like say site:forums.opensuse.org “what to backup” - Google-søgning
will bring a large variety of answers…all either exactly fitting your
needs, or not.
> Bugs with 11.4?
of course! read around in the fora here…there are plenty…
currently 11.4 has 1228 bugs (while 11.3 has 1252) see:
http://tinyurl.com/392jnb
and, if you go here you can read all about’em http://tinyurl.com/423cae5
btw: if 11.3 is working for you, why change? some say: If it ain’t broke
don’t fix it.
–
CAVEAT: C A V E A T
[openSUSE 11.3 + KDE4.5.5 + Thunderbird3.1.8 via NNTP]
A Penguin Being Tickled - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Thanks.
I appreciate your long and detailed answer!
I now have a new question. Is “fora” really a word?
On Mon April 18 2011 11:36 pm, ClrScr wrote:
P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
On 04/19/2011 06:36 AM, ClrScr wrote:
>
> I appreciate your long and detailed answer!
welcome…
in my mind thorough is good…
it give more options to ponder…
> I now have a new question. Is “fora” really a word?
sure…‘fora’ is a plural form of the singular ‘forum’:
one forum
three forums
openSUSE fora
both fora and forums are correct, however the former more closely
following the original Latin convention for plurality, more see
http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=fora
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CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[openSUSE 11.3 + KDE4.5.5 + Thunderbird3.1.8 via NNTP]
A Penguin Being Tickled - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GILA0rrR6w
On 2011-04-18 13:37, DenverD wrote:
> and, if you go here you can read all about’em http://tinyurl.com/423cae5
An awful lot are new :-/
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
@Clrsrn As nrickert and robin_listas write. Full backup of /home/userid/ and /etc/ or selected configuration files in /etc/, .conf, hosts, *.cf In /home/userid/ there are hidden directories like .mozilla, .evolution, .kde4, etc. Having a separate /home partition makes a full backup of /home/userid/ optional, backing up configuration files from /etc/ can be used to restore or compare 11.3 to 11.4 configurations.