Just protect your data.

Just protect your data.

Posted Mar 2, 2006 14:47 UTC (Thu) by jabby (guest, #2648)
In reply to: Just protect your data. by brugolsky
Parent article: Testing the bleeding edge

Absolutely. So, is there anything that the development version of the distro can do to facilitate or implement this for the unaware or lazy tester?

For instance, could Rawhide maintain a failsafe backup RPM database and a snapshot solution for /etc/, /boot/, /usr/local/, ... that allows one to successfully recover from a catastrophic failure? Obviously, this would not help if all of the filesystems are deleted, but that should be rare and we wouldn't want to take *all* the fun out if it... :-)

I know that I would be more likely to run a development distro if there were some sort of built-in recovery tool included. I don't want to have to learn and set up a snapshot/recovery system. (Yes, I'm the lazy tester.)

Oh, and could you make it a nice red button? ;-)

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